Partisan Review
announces the granting of 1959 Long–
view Literary Awards for the following:
JAMES BALDWIN,
"Letter from the South"-Winter 1959
ROBERT LOWELL,
Four Poems-Winter 1959
JAMES PURDY, "Everything under the Sun"-Summer 1959
MARY McCARTHY,
Writings on the Theater
To stimulate American literature, awards of $300 each are
made annually for outstanding work in poetry, fiction and
essays appearing in publications which cannot pay for con–
tributions or which pay inadequately.
The aim of the awards is to bring up the compensation for
good writing to the professional level regardless of where it
is published-and thus to aid in relieving authors of the
pressure to relax their standards or submit to extra-literary
requirements in order
to
be paid for their work.
The field of "little" magazines and collections is surveyed
by a panel of well-known writers, and award winners are
chosen on the basis of the merit of their contributions.
The panel selecting the award winners consisted of Saul
Bellow, Louise Bogan, Charles Boni, Alfred Kazin, Thomas
B. Hess, and Henri Peyre.
Partisan Review
contributions receiving Literary Awards
for 1958 were
"Victorian Morals and the Modem Novel" by John Henry
Raleigh-Spring 1958
"Report from the Academy" by Walter Stone-Summer 1958
"All Men Are" by Leo Litwak-Summer 1958
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A feature of Longview's Literary Awards Program, as of its
Arts Purchase Program, is that no applications are received
and that there are no forms to fill out.
Unpublished manu–
scripts are not considered, but all literary periodicals are
surveyed.
