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Despite an erratic publishing schedule that veered from fortnightly to bimonthly to quarterly, a cover price that rose from 10 cents a copy to $ 1.25 in only a few years and a variable subtitle, by 1959, the magazine was listing its price in both dollars and francs. The following year, however, it
359:, published by the University of Nebraska Press, announcing the first Audience Awards for fiction and poetry, published between June 1958 and June 1959. Winners were awarded $ 100 and $ 50, respectively, and there were no restrictions as to age, nationality or status. 161:, in 1955. In its early incarnation, the magazine cultivated, disseminated and built a lasting historical record of early mid-century work from notable figures in arts and letters, many of whom would go on to acclaim, including poets 391:, the magazine was reborn in 1971 as a high-end, subscription-only bimonthly arts and literature periodicals. Under the headline "Outfox the Fellow in the Bright Nightgown," they sought out subscribers with full-page ads in 431:... charter subscription rates in perpetuity" for early takers. They also touted their graphic design bona fides, noting that their pilot magazine, designed by cutting-edge graphic designers 203:
and although it was clearly targeted to hip intellectuals and literary arts aficionados serious about their culture, the emphasis on best-in-class continued. Influential graphic designers
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were hired to direct art that spanned illustration, multi-page photo essays and graphic design, and contributions from visual artists like filmmakers
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that losses were already expected to run "well into seven figures". He said that the magazine had been underfinanced.
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The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division
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was among the early advisory group to the rotating series of editors that included
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Audience records, 1956-1977. Manuscripts and Archives, New York Public Library
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In 1958, the magazine took a half-page advertisement in the literary magazine
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From 1971 to 1973, the magazine was published solely as
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Audience: A Quarterly Review of Literature and the Arts
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Audience: A Quarterly Review of Literature and the Arts
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Audience: A Quarterly Review of Literature and the Arts
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Circulation
Boston
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
George Starbuck
Piero Heliczer
Joyce Reopel
Arthur Polonsky
Roger Shattuck
Zero Mostel
Milton Glazer
Seymour Chwait
Gordon Parks
Frank Capra
Inge Morath
Nobel
Maya Angelou
Saul Bellow
William Golding
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Nadine Gordimer
Pulitzer
John Cheever
Arthur Miller
John Updike
Nelson Algren
Margaret Atwood

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