American Spectator (literary magazine)

The American Spectator was a monthly literary magazine[1] which made its first monthly appearance in November 1932. It was edited by George Jean Nathan, though Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser[2], and James Branch Cabell were also listed as joint editors[3]. It ceased publication in March 1935.[4]

Sherwood Anderson first published his short story entitled Brother Death in this journal[1]. In 1935, the journal published a discussion, including some humor that not everyone recognized, on the Jewish question.[3][5]

References

  1. ^ a b Walter B. Rideout, Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America: v. 2, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, p. 172 [1]
  2. ^ R. Baird Schuman, Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2002, p. 378 [2]
  3. ^ a b Linda Ben-Zvi, Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times, OUP USA, 2005, p. 167 [3]
  4. ^ Time: "Press: Retiring Spectators," March 11, 1935, accessed December 14, 2010
  5. ^ On Dreiser's anti-Semitism see Donald Pizer Pizer, Theodore Dreiser: Interviews, University of Illinois Press, 2005, p.335 [4]; Gary Levine, The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature 1864-1939 (Literary Criticism & Cultural Theory: Outstanding Dissertations), Routledge, 2002, p. 75 [5]