INTELLECTUALS AND WRITERS THEN AND NOW
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Norman Podhoretz:
There's no question there were more literary maga–
zines. You had the
Kenyon Review,
the
Sewanee Review,
the
Hudson
Review, Commentary-it's
not any different now. But you have
to
remember that the circulation of these magazines was tiny. The highest
circulation
Partisan Review
ever attained was eight or ten thousand. The
other magazines may have had as few as a thousand readers, but it was
not a matter of numbers. They occupied a kind of centrality in the world
of ideas and in the world in which people cared about these matters.
Joanna Rose:
I'd like
to
make the point that it's true that the circulation
was small, but the libraries all had them. In my college library the copy
of
Partisan Review
was always dog-eared.
Edith Kurzweil:
Once they had a survey of how many people read each
issue in libraries, and it turned out that
Partisan Review
had more than
any other.
It
had eleven readers.
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