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"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

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Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

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Frederick Crews

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Born: February 20, 1933
Died: June 21, 2024 (aged 91)
Bio: Frederick Campbell Crews was an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James and E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (1962).
Known for:
  1. Pooh Perplex (1963)
  2. Postmodern Pooh (2001)
  3. The Memory Wars (1995)
  4. Follies of the Wise (2006)
  5. Skeptical Engagements (1986)

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