New Directions catalogs, circulars, and printed ephemera, 1936-(ongoing).

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New Directions catalogs, circulars, and printed ephemera, 1936-(ongoing).

Sales catalogs, circulars, and other printed materials from the New Directions Publishing Corporation founded by publisher-poet James Laughlin in 1936.

7 boxes (2 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6383235

Houghton Library

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New Directions Publishing Corp.

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James Laughlin (1914-1997) began his publishing career as the literary editor of New Democracy, a magazine devoted to the economic theory Social Credit. Here Laughlin published Modern writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams in a section of the magazine entitled "New Directions." In 1936, while in his Junior year at Harvard University, Laughlin gathered the best of these pieces and put them together in the first annual anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry....

Lustig, Oliver.

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