Little Magazines

Art vs. Money.

Because printing costs were still relatively low in America—and very cheap in Europe—many so-called "little magazines" sprang up during the 1920s. The term "little" did not refer to format but to circulation. The standard work, The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography, states that "A little magazine is a magazine designed to print artistic work which for reasons of commercial expediency is not acceptable to the money-minded periodicals or presses." Virtually all little magazines existed for the purpose of publishing avantgarde or experimental writing, often by their editors. A writer is not a writer unless he or she is published some-where, somehow. The little magazines provided a place for writers—typically younger writers—to break in. Ezra Pound was the most important figure involved with the little magazines as editor or adviser during the 1920s. Nearly all of these magazines had a short...

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