ZERO ALBERT BENVENISTE THEMISTOCLES HOETIS The front cover by John Goodwin. The front flap showing the address on Rue Jacob. The back flap with prices in French francs and American dollars. A personal inscription from an unknown previous owner. Although James Campbell states that the first issue of ZERO was published in the […]
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POINTS 11-12
POINTS 11-12 The next issue of POINTS, a double issue noted as POINTS Nos. 11 & 12, was published in winter of 1951-1952, no monthly reference was given. The usual page count in the 90s was increased to 144 pages for this double issue. This issue is particularly important as the Brendan Behan short story, […]
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POINTS 10 The tenth issue of POINTS was published in late summer-early fall of 1951 and was noted as POINTS 10 – June-September 1951. This slip in the publication schedule would make it difficult to maintain the previous record of publishing four issues per year, and as we shall see, the next issue of POINTS […]
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POINTS 9 POINTS 9 was published in late winter-early spring of 1951. Sindbad Vail’s introductory notes make no mention of POINTS 8 or the outcome of the second literary contest. Some of the content of POINTS 8 is discussed in the new “Letters to the Editor” section including a short story by Brendon Behan, possibly […]
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Sidewalk cafes lined many of the boulevards in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter. Les Deux Magots occupied an enviable position at 6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, directly across from l’Abbaye Saint-Germain-des-Prés, number 2 on the map below. Les Deux Magots afforded patrons a clear view of the Abbaye, and the intersection of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, Rue de Rennes and […]
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POINTS 7 – POINTS 8 POINTS 7 was published in July-September 1950. Sindbad Vail’s notes by the editor state that the original goal was to publish six issues a year, and that he and Marcel Bisiaux had reduced this projection to five numbers as they entered their second year of publication. The fact remains that […]
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POINTS 6 The sixth issue of POINTS did not meet the customary quarterly publication date of April-May 1950 due to family emergencies for both editors as detailed by Sindbad Vail in his introductory comments. POINTS 6 once again featured some explanatory text on the front cover and bore the publication date of MAY – JUNE […]
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POINTS 5 The fifth issue of POINTS was published at the beginning of 1950 and was noted as POINTS Nº 5 – January-February 1950. Commentary © James A. Harrod, COPYRIGHT PROTECTED; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED James Campbell discusses Richard Wright’s arrival in Paris and the small magazine scene in his opening chapter of EXILED IN PARIS, Un […]
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the spiritof the times SAINT-GERMAIN-DES-PRES 1945-1955 Commentary © James A. Harrod, COPYRIGHT PROTECTED; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED POINTS and other literary journals that emerged in Paris in the late 1940s did not come about as an isolated occurrence, rather they were an integral part of the changing cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and political climate of Paris. […]
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POINTS 4 The fourth issue of POINTS was published in late fall of 1949 and was noted as Nº 4 Octobre-Novembre 1949. The delay in publication as noted in POINTS 3 was due to the staff taking the month of August as vacation and also to extend the time allowed for submissions to the literary […]
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POINTS 3 The third issue of POINTS was published in the summer of 1949 and was noted as Nº 3 – Juin-Julliet 1949. Copies on sale at booksellers featured a wrapper around each volume that hinted at the contents inside, a change no doubt hastened by the rather plain front format with title and number, […]
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POINTS 2 The second issue of POINTS was published in April-May of 1949. POINTS 2 offered a balance of short stories and poems in French and English, a format that had been established with the first issue that hopefully would find an audience in France and abroad in England and America where primary distribution points […]
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POINTS 1 The premiere issue of POINTS was published in the early part of 1949, the imprint reading No 1, Fevrier-Mars 1949. The budding literary adventure was underwritten financially by Sindbad Vail’s mother, Peggy Guggenheim. Commentary © James A. Harrod, COPYRIGHT PROTECTED; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The format of the first four issues was slightly […]
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