"Little magazines tend to streak across the literary sky like a comet briefly full of passion, poetry and prose before disappearing out of view. Few little magazines last several issues and fewer make a lasting cultural or artistic impression. For every Paris Review and Evergreen Review (if these magazines can be considered true littles), there are thousands of one-shots. Interest on the part of publisher and reader soon dries up as does the material worth printing. William Burroughs’ appearances in the late fifties and throughout the sixties are astonishing for being in definitive, lasting examples of the medium. ... Insect Trust Gazette is a case in point. The Gazette ran for only three issues from 1964 to 1968. Leonard Belasco, Jed Irwin, Robert Basara, and Bill Levy edited the magazine in Philadelphia and later California. The magazine got its name from a line in a Burroughs novel. Not surprisingly, Burroughs appeared in the first two issues. ..."
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Reality Studio: Jed Irwin on the Insect Trust Gazette
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