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Salmagundi (magazine)

April 30, 2024

For the 19th century periodical, see Salmagundi (periodical).

Salmagundi is a US quarterly periodical, featuring cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry, along with transcripts of symposia and interviews with prominent writers and intellectuals. Susan Sontag, a longtime friend of the publication, referred to it as "simply my favorite little magazine." In The Book Wars, James Atlas writes that Salmagundi is "perhaps the country's leading journal of intellectual opinion."[1]

Salmagundi
DisciplineLiterary journal
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History1965-present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
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ISO 4Salmagundi
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ISSN0036-3529
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History and profile edit

Salmagundi was founded by Robert Boyers in the fall of 1965, using money he earned as a youth, singing at his neighborhood Jewish temple, and at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.[2][3] Boyers drew inspiration for his quarterly from other "little magazines" of the era, such as Partisan Review, F.R. Leavis's Scrutiny, and T.S. Eliot's Criterion, among others.[3] The title of the magazine was chosen as a reference to the 19th-century periodical of the same name, published by Washington Irving.

In 1969, the magazine moved its headquarters to Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.[2][4][5] Boyers and his wife, Margarita "Peg" Boyers are both professors in Skidmore's English Department. The magazine celebrated its Fiftieth Anniversary in 2015 by publishing three large volumes, featuring "Best Of" selections from Salmagundi's first five decades.[3]

While the magazine has no explicit mission statement, Boyers has often invoked Lionel Trilling's description of the role served by little magazines in preventing the culture from "being cautious and settled, or merely sociological, or merely pious" and "to make the official representatives of literature a little uneasy."[3]

Salmagundi's editors take pride in continually finding "ways to say NO and THINK AGAIN to the largely settled views of our own enlightened readership."[3] Christopher Lasch, a frequent contributor to the Salmagundi until his death in 1994, observed, in 1975, that the magazine "often criticized leftist clichés from a point of view sympathetic to the underlying objectives of the left." Lasch further noted that Salmagundi reliably opposed "fake radicalism," "genteel academicism" and "estheticism," even as it recognized "the precarious position of intellectual culture in the modern world."[3]

One of the things that sets Salmagundi apart from other literary magazines is its commitment to hosting (and transcribing, for publication) ambitious symposia, featuring lively debate among prominent scholars and writers. Past symposia have included figures such as, Lionel Trilling, Richard Rorty, Martha Nussbaum, Slavoj Zizek, Anthony Appiah, Orlando Patterson, Susan Sontag, and many others.

Notable columnists and contributors edit

Critics and scholars edit


Novelists edit

Poets edit

Notable essays, poetry, and fiction edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "A Brief Preface: Salmagundi at Fifty". Salmagundi. 185–186: 7–8. Winter–Spring 2015.
  2. ^ a b Richard Horgan (29 September 2015). "Skidmore College's Salmagundi Magazine Celebrates 50 Years". Adweek. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Boyers, Robert (Winter–Spring 2015). "Fifty Years of Salmagundi: A Short History of a Strange Obsession". Salmagundi. 185–186: 158–174.
  4. ^ "The History of Salmagundi". Skidmore College. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Literary magazines. Salmagundi". Poets and Writers. Retrieved 1 January 2017.

External links edit

  • Salmagundi official site

April 30, 2024
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For the 19th century periodical see Salmagundi periodical Salmagundi is a US quarterly periodical featuring cultural criticism fiction and poetry along with transcripts of symposia and interviews with prominent writers and intellectuals Susan Sontag a longtime friend of the publication referred to it as simply my favorite little magazine In The Book Wars James Atlas writes that Salmagundi is perhaps the country s leading journal of intellectual opinion 1 SalmagundiDisciplineLiterary journalLanguageEnglishPublication detailsHistory1965 presentPublisherSkidmore College United States FrequencyQuarterlyStandard abbreviationsISO 4 alt Bluebook alt1 alt2 NLM alt MathSciNet alt ISO 4SalmagundiIndexingCODEN alt alt2 JSTOR alt LCCN alt MIAR NLM alt ScopusISSN0036 3529JSTOR00363529LinksJournal homepage Contents 1 History and profile 2 Notable columnists and contributors 2 1 Critics and scholars 2 2 Novelists 2 3 Poets 3 Notable essays poetry and fiction 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory and profile editSalmagundi was founded by Robert Boyers in the fall of 1965 using money he earned as a youth singing at his neighborhood Jewish temple and at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs 2 3 Boyers drew inspiration for his quarterly from other little magazines of the era such as Partisan Review F R Leavis s Scrutiny and T S Eliot s Criterion among others 3 The title of the magazine was chosen as a reference to the 19th century periodical of the same name published by Washington Irving In 1969 the magazine moved its headquarters to Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs N Y 2 4 5 Boyers and his wife Margarita Peg Boyers are both professors in Skidmore s English Department The magazine celebrated its Fiftieth Anniversary in 2015 by publishing three large volumes featuring Best Of selections from Salmagundi s first five decades 3 While the magazine has no explicit mission statement Boyers has often invoked Lionel Trilling s description of the role served by little magazines in preventing the culture from being cautious and settled or merely sociological or merely pious and to make the official representatives of literature a little uneasy 3 Salmagundi s editors take pride in continually finding ways to say NO and THINK AGAIN to the largely settled views of our own enlightened readership 3 Christopher Lasch a frequent contributor to the Salmagundi until his death in 1994 observed in 1975 that the magazine often criticized leftist cliches from a point of view sympathetic to the underlying objectives of the left Lasch further noted that Salmagundi reliably opposed fake radicalism genteel academicism and estheticism even as it recognized the precarious position of intellectual culture in the modern world 3 One of the things that sets Salmagundi apart from other literary magazines is its commitment to hosting and transcribing for publication ambitious symposia featuring lively debate among prominent scholars and writers Past symposia have included figures such as Lionel Trilling Richard Rorty Martha Nussbaum Slavoj Zizek Anthony Appiah Orlando Patterson Susan Sontag and many others Notable columnists and contributors editCritics and scholars edit Susan Sontag George Steiner Marilynne Robinson Christopher Hitchens James Miller Tzvetan Todorov Sir Isaiah Berlin William H Gass Christopher Lasch Adam Phillips Phillip Lopate Steve Fraser Daniel Swift Siri Hustvedt George Scialabba Novelists edit Russell Banks Joyce Carol Oates J M Coetzee Nadine Gordimer Mario Vargas Llosa Darryl Pinckney Steve Stern Mary Gordon Norman Manea Mary Gaitskill Rick Moody Amy Hempel Binnie Kirschenbaum Jim Shepard Howard Norman Poets edit Robert Lowell Seamus Heaney Adrienne Rich Robert Pinsky Frank Bidart Richard Howard Marie Howe Charles Simic Louise Gluck Carolyn Forche Honor Moore Carl Dennis Campbell McGrath Vijay Seshadri Rosanna WarrenNotable essays poetry and fiction editEdward Said s Beginnings 1966 Howard Nemerov s First Snow 22 23 1973 Adrienne Rich s Pieces and Incipience 22 23 1973 Robert Lowell s History and Man and Woman 22 23 1973 Robert Penn Warren s The Nature of A Mirror 22 23 1973 Louise Gluck s Pomegranate 22 23 1973 Leslie H Farber s Lying on the Couch 1975 Howard Nemerov s Ozymandias II and Ginkgoes in Fall 28 1975 Robert Lowell s Epilogue 37 1977 Robert Penn Warren s Question You Must Learn to Live Past and What Was The Thought 50 51 1980 81 Louise Gluck s First Goodbye 50 51 1980 81 William H Gass s The Death of the Author 1984 George Steiner s Our Homeland the Text 1985 Seamus Heaney s Place Pastness Poems A Tryptch 1986 Martin Jay s The Descent of de Man 1988 Christopher Lasch s Counting by Tens 1989 Robert Pinsky s Shiva And Parvati Hiding In The Rain 85 86 1990 Seamus Heaney s Seeing Things 88 89 1990 91 Natalia Ginzburg s My Psychoanalysis 1991 Trans from Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Jed Perl s Abstract Questions 1992 Sharon Olds s Parent Visiting Day and His Smell and The Urn and To My Father 93 1992 J M Coetzee s Emerging from Censorship 1993 Richard Howard s My Last Hustler 100 1993 James Miller s Foucault s Politics in Biographical Perspective 1993 Kwame Anthony Appiah s Ancestral Voices 1994 Roger Shattuck s Second Thoughts on a Wooden Horse 1995 Tzvetan Todorov s The Touvier Trial 1995 Trans from French by John Anzalone Stanley Kauffmann s What s Left of the Center 1996 Carl Dennis s The God Who Loves You 111 1996 J M Coetzee s Realism 114 115 1997 This was eventually published as a chapter in Coetzee s acclaimed novel Elizabeth Costello Michael Ondaatje s Buried 113 1997 Charles Molesworth s From Collage to Combine Rauschenberg and Visual Culture 1998 David Rieff s In Rwanda The Crisis of Humanitarianism 1998 Joyce Carol Oates s The Aesthetics of Fear 1998 Marilynne Robinson s The Fate of Ideas Moses 1999 Carl Dennis s Progress 121 122 1999 Frank Bidart s Luggage and Hammer 121 122 1999 C K Williams s The Nail 121 122 1999 Robert Pinsky s Porch Steps and Song 124 125 1999 2000 Carolyn Forche s Nocturne 126 127 2000 Frank Bidart s Pre Existing Forms We Fill Them and When We Fill Them We Change Them and Are Changed 2000 Carl Dennis s The Photographer 135 136 2002 Richard Howard s Knowing When To Stop 135 136 2002 C K Williams s Inculcations 137 138 2003 Carolyn Forche s Death Bed and Fisherman 148 149 2005 06 Honor Moore s Violetta 2000 144 145 2004 05 Honor Moore s Wallace Stevens 146 147 2005 Frank Bidart s Winter Spring Summer Fall and God s Catastrophe in Our Time 148 149 2005 06 Seamus Heaney s The Aerodrome 148 149 2005 06 Robert Pinsky s Work Song 148 149 2005 06 Adam Phillips s On What is Fundamental 2009 Phillip Lopate s How Do You End an Essay 2010 Charles Simic s The Invisible 166 167 2010 Siri Hustvedt s The Real Story 2012 See also editList of literary magazinesReferences edit A Brief Preface Salmagundi at Fifty Salmagundi 185 186 7 8 Winter Spring 2015 a b Richard Horgan 29 September 2015 Skidmore College s Salmagundi Magazine Celebrates 50 Years Adweek Retrieved 1 January 2017 a b c d e f Boyers Robert Winter Spring 2015 Fifty Years of Salmagundi A Short History of a Strange Obsession Salmagundi 185 186 158 174 The History of Salmagundi Skidmore College Retrieved 1 January 2017 Literary magazines Salmagundi Poets and Writers Retrieved 1 January 2017 External links editSalmagundi official site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Salmagundi magazine amp oldid 1104400129, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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