Journalist with a chaotic, creative career in the underground press, who was in at the launch of New York’s Village VoiceIn 1954, soon after he arrived in New York City as a jobbing Yorkshire-born journalist, John Wilcock put up a notice in a Greenwich Village bookshop. It invited people interested in setting up a paper for the Village to get in touch. A meeting was held – and nothing, initially, ensued. But a year later, in a bar, Wilcock ran into Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher, two of those who had attended the meeting. Fancher by now had money to put into a launch, and so, soon afterwards, did a friend of a girlfriend of Wolf, the novelist Norman Mailer – described by Wilcock as a “definite pain in the ass”.On 26 October 1955, the first issue of the Village Voice – its title suggested by Mailer – was published. It was a time of cold war conformity and paranoia, but New York was not America, and anyway, within the city the Village was a bohemian outpost. It was where, Wilcock wrote, “all the artists and writers were”; he called the artists “wonder workers”. The Voice, while not itself desperately radical, would reflect this vibrant culture. The paper also heralded the journalism that would erupt in the 1960s across the west known as the “underground press”. Its spirit infused later fanzines and radical papers. The Voice itself continued publishing in print until last year, and online until a few weeks ago. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Writer Thom Donovan says he was sent a cease-and-desist letter by Yoko Ono's lawyers after he published a graphic novel about the life of John Lennon that included some rarely seen photos. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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John Murray has signed a new book from Ben Schott. Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Smith & Son has seen a like-for-like sales increase of 14.3% in the year 2011-12, led by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Alma Books, Constable & Robinson and John Blake Publishing have been shortlisted for the IPG... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Lewis has reported a 45% increase in sales of e-readers over the Christmas period, compared... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Agard has been given the royal seal of approval as the winner of Her Majesty’s Gold... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Children's publisher Nosy Crow has partnered with John Lewis to create a picture book of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Murray is planning to expand its non-fiction publishing output and has appointed Georgina... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Haymarket Network are launching an app of The John Lennon Letters... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Bond, former m.d. of Press Books at HarperCollins, has teamed up with former HarperPress... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Lewis has been named as the first retailer to sell Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Wiley is proposing to close its Edinburgh facility in June 2013, expanding its outsourcing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Mail Newspapers group advertising director John Teal is to leave the newspaper publisher in the autumn after 25 years. Continue reading at Media Week
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Rielle Hunter writes that Edwards was 'temporarily insane' when he denied paternity of her child. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Orion has bought the first adult novel from the Blue Peter award-winning children's author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Penguin Children’s has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Penguin US division Dutton... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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These delightful biographies of 294 authors begin with John Bunyan in the 17th century and ends with Rana Dasgupta, born in 1971.My assignment: Read almost 300 literary biographies in more than 800 pages, all of English-language authors, beginning in the 17th century and ending in the present... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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This is a brilliant collection of writings on politics, social and cultural engagement and literary life.Reading for My Life Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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John Smith & Son academic booksellers and Oxford University Press each scooped two awards at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Blake is to reissue an updated version of its biography of Whitney Houston, following the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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