American Spectator (literary magazine)

This article is about the literary magazine. For the conservative political publication, see The American Spectator.
American Spectator
Categoriesliterary magazine
Frequencymonthly
FounderGeorge Jean Nathan Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser, and James Branch Cabell
First issueNovember 1932; 92 years ago (1932-11)
Final issueMay 1937 (1937-05)
CompanyThe American Spectator, Inc.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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] The original editors left the publication in 1935, after which the paper continued monthly publication under new editors until October 1936. The American Spectator lasted another six months on a bimonthly before folding altogether.[4]

Sherwood Anderson first published his short story entitled Brother Death in this journal.[1] In 1933, the journal published a discussion, including some humor that not everyone recognized, on the Jewish question.[3][5]

  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. ^ Keith Newlin, A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2003 [4]
  5. ^ On Dreiser's anti-Semitism see Donald Pizer, Theodore Dreiser: Interviews, University of Illinois Press, 2005, p.335 [5]; 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 [6]