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Audience (Boston, Mass.)
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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The Audience records consist of office files documenting the preparation and publishing of the magazine, including correspondence with authors, artists, photographers, agents and publishers, contracts, manuscripts, issue files,and financial records. The bulk of the collection consists of over 2,000 author files arranged alphabetically. These files contain, at a minimum, a reader's comment sheet, giving the author's name, submission title, agent, publisher, editor, Audience staffcomments, date received and date returned. More complete files include agreements, contracts, correspondence from writers and their agents, publicity materials, and occasionally original manuscripts. The author files also include files on literary agents, artists, and photographers who submitted material to Audience. Among the notable authors represented in the collection are Nelson Algren, Maya Angelou, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood,W.H. Auden, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Thomas Berger, Jorge Luis Borges, Gwendolyn Brooks, Anthony Burgess, Frank Capra, Raymond Carver, Neal Cassady, John Cheever, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, William Golding, Nadine Gordimer,Joseph Heller, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Cynthia Ozick, Walker Percy, George Plimpton, Philip Roth, John Updike, and Tom Wolfe. Administrative files contain correspondence, internal memoranda, contact sheets, budgets, personnel files, and financial records pertaining to all aspects of the running of the magazine. Issue files within this series contain materials specific to each issue of Audience, such as plans, schedules, and correspondence.
Audience was an American literary magazine, published from1971-1973. The editors were Tim Hill, L. Rust Hills, James F. Fixx, Robert M. Strozier and Geoffrey C. Ward. Audience offered fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by notable contemporary writers. High operating costs, lack of revenue from advertising, and low sales contributed to the early demise of Audience, following the Jan/Feb 1973 issue.
Shadows (1826). NYPL Art and Architecture Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery
