Cultural Differences In Mericans By Sandra Cisneros
Dan Sinykin and Edwin Roland InJames Laughlin spent a week at a writers' retreat in Port Townsend. Carver had recently published his second short story collection with Lish at Knopf.
The two had become a literary power couple, the sine qua non of dirty realism, triumphing amid Cisnerros vogue for short fiction in a minimalist style. As significant for literary history was Laughlin's encounter with a young publisher named Scott Walker who, for eight years, had been publishing Gallagher and other poets from his nearby letterpress operation under the colophon of Graywolf Press.
Laughlin, the aging heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, was a publishing legend.
Inat the age of twenty-two and at the advice of Ezra Pound, he founded New Directions, which quickly became the premier avant-garde publishing house, almost synonymous with http://pinsoftek.com/wp-content/custom/newspeak/patrick-chalfant-on-native-american-authors.php modernism in the US. Laughlin's strategy was clever. Not only was he filling, with his front and backlists, a market niche prepared by Random House's publication of work like James Joyce's Ulysses and Gertrude Stein's oeuvre, but his attacks themselves were a commercial tactic. They made his brand.
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Laughlin was "disavowing an interest in marketing while constantly trying to think up new marketing techniques. In Port Townsend, Laughlin and Walker struck up a friendship.
In the ensuing years, Walker would vacation at Laughlin's ski resort in Alta, Utah, and Graywolf would publish Laughlin's lectures on Pound. Laughlin became a mentor and a model for Walker as Graywolf emerged at the forefront of a movement: nonprofit publishing.
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But inthat all lay ahead. Graywolf remained close to its counterculture origins. The Mimeo Revolution provided the print technology for the postwar era's leading poetry movements. Lawrence Ferlinghetti published Allen Ginsberg's Howl with a mimeograph in ]
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