San Francisco Review of Books

San Francisco Review of Books

"San Francisco Review of Books" (or "SFRB") was a book review periodical published from the mid-1970s to 1997 in the Bay Area. Founding editor-publisher Ron Nowicki launched his publication April 1975, a time when the "San Francisco Chronicle" depended on the wire services for its reviews. "SFRB" began as a magazine and later adopted a tabloid format.

In addition to the reviews and a coverage of San Francisco's small press scene, it offered interviews with such authors as Eric Ambler, Ann Beattie, Ray Bradbury, John Kenneth Galbraith, Herbert Gold, Elia Kazan, Jerzy Kosinski, William Kotzwinkle, Henry Miller and Paul Theroux.

Contributors

The roster of "SFRB" contributors included Alice Adams, Carolyn Burke, Alexander Chee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Stephen Greenblatt, Pam Houston, Diane Johnson, Emily Leider, Michael McDonagh, Leonard Michaels, Ishmael Reed [ [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/reed/intervw.htm University of Delaware: Ishmael Reed Papers] ] and Mary Elizabeth Williams. In addition to his editor's column, Nowicki also wrote occasional reviews. Susie Bright was a columnist from 1992 to 1994. [ [http://susiebright.blogs.com/Old_Static_Site_Files/Resume.pdf. Susie Bright resume] ]

When 27-year-old Wendy Lesser, with no editing experience, was a guest editor in 1980, she found the experience so rewarding that three months later she launched her own publication, "The Threepenny Review". [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/07/DDGL4ALIBK17.DTL Guthmann, Edward. "Threepenny Review marks 25 years of doggedly panning for literary gold," "San Francisco Chronicle", January 7, 2005.] ]

"SFRB" received little funding and had no backers, so it relied on a combination of advertising revenues, subscriptions, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and volunteers for financial support. Despite the limited funding, "SFRB" was published regularly under Nowicki's editorship until the late 1980s. When it was sold in 1989, Nowicki was retained as editor for one year until a successor was installed. The publication continued well into the late 1990s with various owners, while Nowicki left to interview the last survivors of the Warsaw cabaret for his first book, "Warsaw: The Cabaret Years" (Mercury House, 1992), about cabaret and coffeehouse life between the wars in Warsaw. His articles have appeared in "The New York Times", "Newsweek", "North American Review" and other publications. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED81039F93AA15752C0A96F948260 Nowicki, Ron. "Yes, There Is No Free Lunch," "The New York Times", January 29, 1989.] ] Nowicki has been active in the Polish communities in San Francisco and London, where he currently lives. [ [http://www.mercuryhouse.org/nowicki.html Mercury House: "Warsaw: The Cabaret Years"] ]

Archives

"SFRB" can be found in several major libraries, including the New York Public Library, the San Francisco Public Library and the Library of the University of California at Berkeley.

References

ee also

*Granta
*The Massachusetts Review
*Moody Street Irregulars
*The Paris Review
*Ploughshares
*Prairie Schooner
*Transatlantic Review
*Utne Reader

External links

* [http://www.ccsf.edu/Library/periodicals/magsS.html City College of San Francisco: Rosenberg Library Periodical Department]
* [http://www.assassinationweb.com/scott.htm "Case Closed or Posner Exposed", expansion of article by Peter Dale Scott, first published in "SFRB", November 1993 (full text).]


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