# New World Writing

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'''''New World Writing''''' was a paperback magazine, a literary anthology series published by New American Library's Mentor imprint from 1951 until 1960, then [J. B. Lippincott & Co.](/source/J._B._Lippincott_%26_Co.)'s Keystone from volume/issue 16 (1960) to the last volume, 22, in 1964.<ref name=guy/>

Rare Library described it as "one of the longest running and very significant paperback magazines in American literature. An institution that sprang up in the 1950s, showcasing original and first appearance of stories, poems, essays, etc. of leading writers from around the world. It has sometimes lapsed, but then returned to life, outlasting imitators in nearly every decade."

==Contributors==
The fourth issue had two contributions by [Gore Vidal](/source/Gore_Vidal), who had helped found ''New World Writing''.<ref>[http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/pseudo.html Kloman, Harry. "The Pseudonyms of Gore Vidal: 1950-1954," 2005]</ref>

The seventh issue (1955) included the first chapter of ''[Catch-22](/source/Catch-22)'' (named ''Catch-18'' originally) and "Jazz of the Beat Generation" by "Jean-Louis" (actually an excerpt from [Jack Kerouac](/source/Jack_Kerouac)'s ''[On the Road](/source/On_the_Road)''). That issue also included work by [Heinrich Böll](/source/Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll) and [Dylan Thomas](/source/Dylan_Thomas). The eighth issue (1955) featured [Flannery O'Connor](/source/Flannery_O'Connor), [Federico García Lorca](/source/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca) and [Thomas Berger](/source/Thomas_Berger_(novelist)). The first Lippincott volume, 16, was led off by [Tillie Olsen](/source/Tillie_Olsen)'s most famous story "Tell Me a Riddle" and included [Thomas Pynchon](/source/Thomas_Pynchon)'s "Low-Lands"; ''New World Writing'' 17 (1960) included [John Updike](/source/John_Updike)'s "The Sea's Green Sameness", [James Purdy](/source/James_Purdy)'s "Daddy Wolf", an essay by Otto Friedrich on [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound) and Louise W. King's first published story, "The Day We Were Mostly Butterflies."

Other contributors included [W. H. Auden](/source/W._H._Auden), [Samuel Beckett](/source/Samuel_Beckett), [Saul Bellow](/source/Saul_Bellow), [Jorge Luis Borges](/source/Jorge_Luis_Borges), [E. E. Cummings](/source/E._E._Cummings), [William Gaddis](/source/William_Gaddis), [Jean Genet](/source/Jean_Genet), [André Gide](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Gide), [Eugène Ionesco](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco), [Christopher Isherwood](/source/Christopher_Isherwood), [Shirley Jackson](/source/Shirley_Jackson), [Norman Mailer](/source/Norman_Mailer), [Pablo Picasso](/source/Pablo_Picasso), [Henry Miller](/source/Henry_Miller), [Robert Motherwell](/source/Robert_Motherwell), [Octavio Paz](/source/Octavio_Paz), [Kenneth Rexroth](/source/Kenneth_Rexroth),  [Upton Sinclair](/source/Upton_Sinclair), [Tennessee Williams](/source/Tennessee_Williams) and [William Carlos Williams](/source/William_Carlos_Williams).

The editors were Stewart Richardson and Corlies M. Smith. The cover design was by Ernst Reichl. It was succeeded in 1967 by ''[New American Review](/source/American_Review_(literary_journal))'', edited by [Ted Solotaroff](/source/Ted_Solotaroff).

A purchase of the anthology was described in [Frank O'Hara](/source/Frank_O'Hara)'s poem "The Day Lady Died":
:I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
:and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
:an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
:in Ghana are doing these days<ref name=guy>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Jx9sToE4a1AC&dq=%22new+world+writing%22&pg=PA124 Davidson, Michael. ''Guys Like Us'', University of Chicago Press, 2004.]</ref>

==See also==
*[List of literary magazines](/source/List_of_literary_magazines)

==References==
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== External links ==

* [New World Writing Records.](/source/hdl%3A10079%2Ffa%2Fbeinecke.newworld) Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1951
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1964
Category:Magazines published in New York City
Category:New American Library books

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