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 The goal of editor Joseph F. McCrindle was to strike a balance between leading writers and new, sometimes unpublished, ones, and, as the title implies, between American and British writers.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.

[edit] Contents of Stories from the Transatlantic Review

  • "Introduction" • Joseph F. McCrindle
  • "Music to Lay Eggs By" • Thomas Bridges • 1968
  • "Home Is" • Morris Lurie • 1968
  • "The Road" • Alan Sillitoe • 1968
  • "Summer Voices" • John Banville • 1968
  • "Making Changes" • Leonard Michaels • 1969
  • "My Sister and Me" • Asa Baber, Jr. • 1967
  • "Before the Operation" • Paul Breslow • 1967
  • "The Collector" • Austin C. Clarke • 1967
  • "Sing, Shaindele, Sing" • Jerome Charyn • 1966
  • "Black Barbecue" • Daniel Spicehandler • 1966
  • "The Adult Education Class" [from Eating People Is Wrong] • Malcolm Bradbury • 1959
  • "During the Jurassic" • John Updike • 1966
  • "Acme Rooms and Sweet Marjorie Russell" • Hugh Allyn Hunt • 1966
  • "The Zodiacs" • Jay Neugeboren • 1969
  • "Dying" • Joyce Carol Oates • 1966
  • "The Redhead" • Penelope Gilliatt • 1965
  • "Girl in a White Dress" • Edward Franklin • 1964
  • "Changed" • Norma Meacock • 1964
  • "A Meeting in Middle Age" • William Trevor • 1964
  • "The World’s Fastest Human" • Irvin Faust • 1964
  • "The Siege" • Sol Yurick • 1963
  • "The Enemy" • Bruce Jay Friedman • 1963
  • "Simple Arithmetic" • Virginia Moriconi • 1963
  • "The Hyena" • Paul Bowles • 1962
  • "The Fair of San Gennaro" • John McPhee • 1961
  • "Ismael" • Alfred Chester • 1961
  • "Francois Yattend" • Jean-Claude Van Itallie • 1961
  • "The Star Blanket" • Shirley Schoonover • 1961
  • "A Game of Catch" • George Garrett • 1960
  • "The Educated Girl" • V. S. Pritchett • 1960
  • "Johnny Dio and the Sugar Plum Burglars" • Harry D. Miller • 1960
  • "At Home with the Colonel" • Frank Tuohy • 1962
  • "A Different Thing" • Walter Clemons • 1959
  • "The Ice Cream Eat" • William Goldman • 1959
  • "Biographical Notes"

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