Book details

  • Genre:biography & autobiography
  • Sub-genre:Editors, Journalists, Publishers
  • Language:English
  • Pages:448
  • Paperback ISBN:9781682220160

107 Confrontations Or, The History of Confrontation Magazine Up to a Point

By Martin Tucker

Overview

A history and memoir of the first 42 years of Confrontation Magazine by its founding Editor.
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Description

Eight Nobel laureates, a high school student, many beginning writers and many award-winning writers including Arthur Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Jerzy Kosinski, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, Jean Stafford, John Ashbery (interview), Truman Capote (interview), James Jones, Anthony Doerr, Denise Levertov , and Susan Vreeland appeared in Confrontation during its first 42 years. Tucker, the magazine’s Editor- in-Chief for more than four decades, tells ALMOST ALL in this revealing history.
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About The Author

Martin Tucker confounded in 1968 and served as Editor in Chief of Confrontation Magazine for four decades. He is the author of five collections of poetry and six works of literary criticism. His essays, poems , stories and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Saturday Review and elsewhere. He served on the executive board Pen American Center for 23 years and for two terms on the governing board of The Poetry Society of America. He is Professor Emeritus of Long Island University.
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