Tune in on Zoom with us next month as the Genre Reading
Group (GRG) explores journalists and journalism. Fiction or nonfiction, the choice is
yours! Register here: https://emmetoneal.libnet.info/event/3501716
Here is a link to the Jefferson County Library Cooperative
online catalog where you can browse some of the titles available and reserve
anything that catches your eye.
Encore catalog: https://bit.ly/2P0u4vk
For titles you would like to pick up at O’Neal Library: once you receive a hold notice that you have items ready for checkout, you may call the Circulation Dept at 205.445.1101 to schedule contactless curbside pickup OR visit ONL Express, limited access to the building Monday-Saturday 10am-2pm. Masks covering nose and mouth are required for the duration of your visit and there is a limit of 30 people in the building at a time. Visit during ONL Express hours to peruse the small journalism display on the 2nd floor near the elevator.
This week, GRG met to talk about magazines:
TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides
television program listings information as well as television-related news,
celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some
issues, horoscopes.
National
Geographic (ONL subscribes)
National Geographic is the official magazine of the National
Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in
1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains
articles about science, geography, history, and world culture.
Sunset is a lifestyle magazine in the United States. Sunset
focuses on homes, cooking, gardening, and travel, with a focus almost
exclusively on the Western United States.
Woman's Day is an American women's magazine that covers such
topics as homemaking, food, nutrition, fitness, and fashion. The print edition
is one of the Seven Sisters magazines aimed at stay-at-home moms: Woman’s Day,
Family Circle, McCall’s, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, and
Better Homes and Gardens. Of these
seven, only Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, and Woman’s Day remain
in print.
The Week (ONL subscribes)
The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the
United Kingdom and United States. The American edition started in 2001 and provides
perspectives on the week's current events and other news, as well as editorial
commentary from global media, with the intent to provide readers with multiple
political viewpoints. In addition to the above, the magazine covers a broad
range of topics, including science, technology, health, the media, business and
the arts. The Week claims it is "designed for readers who want to know
what's going on in the world, but don’t have the time to read a daily newspaper
from cover to cover - let alone all of them."
Bon Appetitv (ONL
subscribes)
Bon Appétit is a monthly American food and entertaining
magazine, that typically contains recipes, entertaining ideas, restaurant
recommendations, and wine reviews. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered at
the One World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City and has been in
publication since 1956.
Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by
publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and
currently runs as a webzine, owned by NEXT Management.
Rolling Stone
(ONL subscribes)
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses
on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by
Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its
coverage of rock music and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson.
1843 is a bi-monthly lifestyle magazine that focuses on
culture, design, fashion, health, travel, and technology. Based in London, the
magazine is named after the founding year of The Economist magazine, its sister
publication.
Smithsonian
(ONL subscribes)
Smithsonian magazine places a Smithsonian lens on the
world, looking at the topics and subject matters researched, studied and
exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution—science, history, art, popular culture
and innovation—and chronicling them every day for our diverse readership.
GQ: Gentlemen’s Quarterly
(ONL subscribes)
GQ is the authority on men. For more than 50
years, GQ has been the premier men’s magazine, providing definitive
coverage of style and culture. With its unique and powerful design, work from
the finest photographers and a stable of award-winning writers, GQ reaches
millions of leading men each month. The only publication that speaks to all
sides of the male equation, GQ is simply sharper and smarter.
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently
published six times a year. It was published weekly under this title from 1897
until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969.
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts was a
modernist magazine founded by Harold Loeb and Alfred Kreymborg and published
from November 1921 to January 1924. Initially, the magazine was printed in
Europe and had a complicated and brief run.
According to the Pennwick Foundation, “Broom set up headquarters in Rome, where its first ten issues were printed. After the first year of publication, Kreymborg left, and Loeb moved Broom’s headquarters from Rome to Berlin, where he published six more issues before his money ran out. Broom’s associate editor, Matthew Josephson, took over the funding and moved Broom’s headquarters to New York, where he published five issues, the last of which was banned by U.S. postal censors.”
Just under two years after The Shadow appeared on magazine racks, Doc Savage became the third pulp character to get his own magazine.
The world met the Man of Bronze in a novel titled “The Man of Bronze,” March 1933.
Doc Savage was created by Street and Smith’s Henry W. Ralston, with help from editor John L. Nanovic, in order to capitalize on the surprise success of The Shadow magazine.
It was Lester Dent, though, who crafted the character into the superman that he became.
Dent, who wrote most of the adventures, described his hero – Clark “Doc” Savage Jr. – as a cross between “Sherlock Holmes with his deducting ability, Tarzan of the Apes with his towering physique and muscular ability, Craig Kennedy with his scientific knowledge, and Abraham Lincoln with his Christliness.”
Through 181 novels, the fight against evil was on. From a headquarters on the 86th floor of a towering Manhattan skyscraper, Doc, his five pals — Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Ham and Monk — and occasionally his cousin Pat battled criminals the world over (and under) 12 times a year, from 1933 until early 1947; then the team’s exploits dropped to every two months until the final three quarterly issues in 1949.
Doc Savage is one of the few characters whose complete original pulp run has been reprinted in book form. Doc also appeared in a short-lived radio drama in the 1940s, a couple of serialized adventures on public radio and a 1975 movie. (https://thepulp.net/the-links/docsavage/)”
Punch, or The London Charivari, was a British weekly
magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and
wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the
1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its
modern sense as a humorous illustration.
Tatler was first published in 1709. Today, more than 300
years later, Tatler magazine is published both in print and digitally, with a
dynamic website focusing on parties and people, a dedicated social following
and a series of stellar events. Tatler’s powerful mix of glamour, fashion,
society, features and fun make the brand unique. Tatler magazine is published
monthly.
Stereogum is the world’s best music blog, founded in 2002.
It is independently owned and operated.
Horse & Rider
(ONL subscribes)
Horse & Rider provides all you need for today’s
Western horse life. Learn from top professional trainers, clinicians, and horse-keeping
experts. Experience Western life. Travel to Western destinations and scenic
trails. Horse & Rider is your resource to live today’s Western
horse life.
GENERAL DISCUSSION:
One of GRG’s members mentioned a website, Birmingham
Rewound, where memories of the Magic City from the 1940s through the 1970s may
be enjoyed: https://www.birminghamrewound.com/
Another member mentioned a recent Birmingham News article on
penicillin research that referenced the book “The
Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle” by Eric
Lax.
“Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in his London laboratory in 1928 and its eventual development as the first antibiotic by a team at Oxford University headed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain in 1942 led to the introduction of the most important family of drugs of the twentieth century. Yet credit for penicillin is largely misplaced. Neither Fleming nor Florey and his associates ever made real money from their achievements; instead it was the American labs that won patents on penicillin's manufacture and drew royalties from its sale. Why this happened, why it took fourteen years to develop penicillin, and how it was finally done is a fascinating story of quirky individuals, missed opportunities, medical prejudice, brilliant science, shoestring research, wartime pressures, misplaced modesty, conflicts between mentors and their protégés, and the passage of medicine from one era to the next.”
One of Holley’s favorite nonfiction titles just happens to
be about magazines in a roundabout way, Ernest
Hemingway and the Little Magazines: The Paris Years by Nicholas Joost,
published in 1968. Alas, it has been
lost and is no longer available in the library system but it
is worth an interlibrary loan if you have any interest!
“For much of the initial period Hemingway lived and wrote in Paris, the only writing he had published was his journalism. Gradually, as his reputation among the literary expatriate community grew, his work began to appear with regularity in many of the most important little magazines in Europe and the United States, including Little Review, Poetry, The Exile, Transatlantic Review, This Quarter, transition, The Double Dealer, and Der Querschnitt. Hemingway was also included in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers (1925), the first important anthology of the work of the expatriates.
One reason for Hemingway's original change of publishers from Liveright to Scribner's, was the opportunity the latter offered him to publish his work in Scribner's Magazine, in which his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald published and for which he received handsome payments. As Hemingway became established as a writer, he became one of the most sought-after, and highly-paid magazine writers of his time. His articles, stories, and excerpts from novels appeared frequently in such magazines as Life, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Holiday, and a host of other commercial magazines.”
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/hemngway/mags.htm
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