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Quarterly, The New Republic, New York, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and Vogue. In 1985, Junker founded the literary journal ZYZZYVA: The Last Word—West Coast Writers & Artists. In each issue he included some 30 images of works on paper in black & white and featured writers appearing in print for the first time, some 250 in all before he retired in 2010. He sold some 25 pages of ads, as a source of income and as a community bulletin board. Kay Ryan appeared in the second issue, Sherman Alexie while he was still in graduate school. First times in fiction included: F.X. Toole, whose stories inspired Million Dollar Baby, Po Bronson, and Chitra Divakaruni. And Haruki Murakami’s first time in English. And Frances Mayes’ notebook that led to Under the Tuscan Sun. And all the West Coast poets who became U.S. Poet Laureates, from Robert Hass to Kay Ryan, Philip Levine, Juan Felipe Herrera, Joy Harjo, with the exception of W.S. Merwin. (Junker's successor as editor, Laura Cogan, published Ada Limón.) He edited five anthologies of works published in ZYZZYVA, including AutoBioDiversity: True Stories (Heyday Books, Berkeley). His 24-volume metamemoir, A Total Junker, includes the oral history, Lord Jeff & The Closet: The Gay Scene, such as it was, circa Amherst, circa 1960 (revised edition, 2023, Mighty Fool Press, Bozeman, MT). His collaboration with artists Paul Kos and Isabelle Sorrell was recently on view at Anglim/Trimble in San Francisco. Junker lives in San Francisco with his wife, Rozanne Enerson Junker, author of Renatus’ Kayak.
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