Talk:Old Crow Review

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[edit] A Wiki Letter to Journalists

The publisher John Gibney [1] of FkB Press Inc. [2] should be contacted to help answer some of the below questions regarding the Old Crow Review:

  • What was the approximate circulation of the Old Crow Review, especially over the years. Who were the readership? Local Amherst residents solely?
  • There is a mystery to Issue 12 of the Old Crow Review which is missing from all U.S. libraries that in fact previously held copies. You will see in the library catalogue of The Jones Library (Amherst, MA) that the issue has been BILLED and was removed in late 2004, several months after it went into circulation.[3] Amherst Books doesn't have any back issues. It's all kind of annoying, considering it is now impossible to verify if author William Monahan might have had a last contribution in there, unless John Gibney of FkB Press Inc. can be tracked down. Note: Known libraries holding copies of Old Crow Review are: The Jones Library, the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, and a library at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
  • How many Old Crow contributions were nominated for the Pushcart Prize and how many won? Were there nominations for other awards?
  • What kind of ties did the Old Crow Review have to its local community? William Monahan, in an interview with The Hartford Courant, talks about the original serialization of his novel Light House in the Old Crow ("Writer's 'trifle' Aims Higher", Oct 2, 2001), and says that "In 1993, I gave it to a literary magazine to serialize to benefit a food charity."
  • Are there any other titles from FkB Press that contain writing by William Monahan? Perhaps a short story anthology?

It was a worthwhile literary magazine and it would be a good idea to conserve the issues, as well as provide a short encyclopedic article describing it. Hell, why not even make back-issues available.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 05:03, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To do

  • The Reception section could be built up based on some of the Factsheet Five short reviews of the Old Crow Review from prior to 1998.
  • The History and significance section could talk of William Monahan, but only when an overall view has been obtained so that there is no bias towards one contributor. Simon Perchik, Patricia Martin, and Pat Schneider contributed poetry. Interview with Owen Barfield and Elmer Schenkel reprinted in Issue 2. Who were the other important contributors?