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507:, while criticizing elements of Solotaroff's editorial style, such as his disinterest in impersonal forms of writing, never defining his standards, and passively letting writers bring work to him rather than cultivating a stronger guiding concept: "in his admirable reluctance to turn the review into a closed shop or to lay down an ideological line, he reduced his editorial criteria to an unarguable question of taste. And so the magazine was simply Solotaroff - not an institution like the old 177:
The twenty-sixth and final issue was published in September 1977. It ceased publication for financial reasons, and because Solotaroff felt it had run its course. Its circulation had decreased from a peak of 100,000 to 50,000 and its price increased from $ 0.95 to $ 2.45 a copy.
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said the publication "started off stellar and never lost altitude, never peaked out, continuing to make literary news back when literary news didn't seem like an oxymoron, each issue bearing something eventful...".
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in 1973. At first, it was published at a rate of three issues per year, then reduced to two starting in 1975. Solotaroff served as editor for the duration of its publication, though
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reviews, 'little magazines' with an articulate, developing cultural position, but rather a product of one man's taste". Years later, Glenn Howard wrote in
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It was unusual for the number of well-known and later-known writers it attracted from its very first issue. Its list of notable writers includes:
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published 26 issues including about 200 short stories, 300 poems, and 130 essays written by 500 authors.
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literature to a mass audience, or in Solotaroff's words, the "democratization of literary culture".
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Glenn Howard hypothesized that the publication's struggle may in part be due to the decline of "the
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reported that at the time, it was "the longest-running paperback literary periodical".
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Ted Solotaroff interview with Stephen Banker (1972)
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American Review
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Philip Roth
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