<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post114795385603516659..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114839564257512938</id><published>2006-05-23T10:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-23T10:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>highly recommended:James Laughlin, New Directions,...</title><summary type='text'>highly recommended:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;James Laughlin, New Directions, and the remaking of Ezra Pound&lt;/I&gt; by Gregory Barnhisel (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the author&#39;s primary concern is to show the conscious marketing efforts that laughlin used to rehabilitate pound&#39;s post-WWII reputation, but in doing so barnhisel also gives a good sense of laughlin&#39;s editorial vision for ND.&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114839564257512938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114839564257512938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1148395620000#c114839564257512938' title=''/><author><name>tmorange</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13540323590390887131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-348262623"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114826870425591135</id><published>2006-05-21T23:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-21T23:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I guess there would always be exceptions, but clea...</title><summary type='text'>I guess there would always be exceptions, but clearly Laughlin&#39;s energy and attention wained over time.  The &quot;high&quot; period of his involvement is still in the first 20 years or so.  I&#39;m not sure Laughlin was even involved in the ND Annuals after about 1960--it certainly gets thin after that.  He tended to delegate increasingly after about 1965--&quot;here, you handle this, I&#39;m off to Switzerland....&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114826870425591135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114826870425591135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1148268660000#c114826870425591135' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114811584906020347</id><published>2006-05-20T05:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-20T05:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ND did actually bring out Duncan&#39;s last two books,...</title><summary type='text'>ND did actually bring out Duncan&#39;s last two books, after Duncan decided to resume publication (Ground Work: Before the War, 1984, and In the Dark, 1988), and other titles after Duncan&#39;s death, so the scenario is perhaps a bit more complex than Schelling would have it. ND also published some new Snyder titles up to 1980 (The Real Work). In addition, it continued to publish new collections by HD (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114811584906020347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114811584906020347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1148115840000#c114811584906020347' title=''/><author><name>jeff</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06410386491643353394</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1634465795"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114800822966055225</id><published>2006-05-18T23:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T23:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s one part Andy, but readers have to genuinel...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s one part Andy, but readers have to genuinely respond, too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The millions that the Poetry crowd have can&#39;t buy an audience like Spicer got with his verses (which I dislike but I see their beauty).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s hard to figure out why something lasts, but it has to be at least partially based on actual talent.  At any rate, it&#39;s easy to say that Shakespeare had actual talent.  He </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114800822966055225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114800822966055225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1148008200000#c114800822966055225' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114799892372775998</id><published>2006-05-18T20:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T20:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Of course, &quot;lasting&quot; has a lot to do with being ke...</title><summary type='text'>Of course, &quot;lasting&quot; has a lot to do with being kept in, or brought back into, print.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114799892372775998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114799892372775998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1147998900000#c114799892372775998' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114799532973504485</id><published>2006-05-18T19:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T19:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Something similar happened to Gallimard in France....</title><summary type='text'>Something similar happened to Gallimard in France. The early editorial committee was tops, and they got everybody on their list -- all the top surrealists, but they were also able to see that Celine had talent, too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think Curtis is right that Pound was the real editorial committee for Laughlin (his money came from Pittsburg Steel), but Laughlin at least had the good sense to listen to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114799532973504485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114799532973504485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1147995300000#c114799532973504485' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114797085698595893</id><published>2006-05-18T12:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, then how come Fielding didn’t make your NY...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, then how come Fielding didn’t make your NYTimes ‘shoulda been there’ list and Michael Cunningham et al did…..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114797085698595893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114797085698595893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1147970820000#c114797085698595893' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114796274519694903</id><published>2006-05-18T10:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T10:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The history of New Directions is a long and compli...</title><summary type='text'>The history of New Directions is a long and complicated one.  When the history of &quot;alternative&quot; publishers is finally written, Laughlin will be right up there at the top.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The problem, which Schelling seems to grasp indirectly, is that Laughlin is from a previous generation.  His avant-garde sense was initiated by Pound in the late 1930&#39;s, and his sense of the literary scene began to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114796274519694903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114795385603516659/comments/default/114796274519694903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html?showComment=1147962720000#c114796274519694903' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-directions-founder-james-laughlin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114795385603516659' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114795385603516659' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2006"/></entry></feed>