Transatlantic Review
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Transatlantic Review, published in London and New York, was a literary journal that brought together essays, interviews, short stories and poetry. It ran for 60 issues between 1959 and 1977.
Seven O. Henry Award-winning stories came from its pages. The goal of editor Joseph F. McCrindle was to strike a balance between leading writers and new, sometimes unpublished, ones, and, as the title implies, between American and British writers. B.S. Johnson was the poetry editor who assembled the feature, "New Transatlantic Poetry." A significant contributing editor was the playwright, poet and actor Heathcote Williams.
J.G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, William Faulkner, Iris Murdoch, Alan Sillitoe, John Updike, Richard Yates and many other well-known authors appeared in the publication. Many issues featured interviews with theater and film directors, authors and playwrights, such as Eugene Walter's 1960 interview with Gore Vidal.
After a decade, McCrindle selected the magazine's best for his Stories from the Transatlantic Review (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970; Penguin, 1974), an anthology that included Paul Bowles, Jerome Charyn, Bruce Jay Friedman, Penelope Gilliatt, William Goldman and Joyce Carol Oates. McCrindle collected the interviews in Behind the Scenes: Theater and Film Interviews from the Transatlantic Review (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
The final issue was published June 1977. A complete set of Transatlantic Review is valued at $600. It is not to be confused with The Transatlantic Review, founded by Ford Madox Ford in the 1920s.
