- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"17 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"41 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol 17946", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"17946", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1956-1977", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1956/1977"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1956
- date_inclusive_end
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1977
- keydate
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1956
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Audience (Boston, Mass.)"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"title\">Audience</span> was an American literary magazine, published from 1971-1973. The editors were Tim Hill, L. Rust Hills, James F. Fixx, Robert Strozier and Geoffrey C. Ward. The collection contains the 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."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Audience Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Audience (Boston, Mass.)", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">Audience</span> was an American literary magazine, published from 1971-1973. The editors were Tim Hill, L. Rust Hills (1924-2008), James F. Fixx (1932-1984), Robert Strozier and Geoffrey C Ward. According to its publicity, <span class=\"title\">Audience</span> was \"a new magazine created expressly for the purpose of providing an open-ended chronicle of America's taste, as reflected in superb fiction, poetry, lavish portfolios, and eloquent articles.\" From its first issue, dated Jan/Feb 1971, <span class=\"title\">Audience</span> published works by many of the notable authors of the day, including 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 Faulkner, William Golding, Nadine Gordimer, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Cynthia Ozick, Walker Percy, George Plimpton, Jonathan Price, Philip Roth, and John Updike. High operating costs, no revenue from advertising, and low sales contributed to the early demise of <span class=\"title\">Audience</span>, following the Jan/Feb 1973 issue. Editors Hill and Strozier tried to launch another journal, Cliff-Hanger (later named First Look), a biweekly soft-cover magazine that serialized new works of fiction and nonfiction, but that venture also failed.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The records of <span class=\"title\">Audience</span> consist of the magazine's author files and administrative files.</p> <p>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, <span class=\"title\">Audience</span> staff comments, 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 <span class=\"title\">Audience</span>. Some notable authors with more detailed files 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.</p> <p>The administrative files contain correspondence, internal memoranda, contact sheets, budgets, personnel files, publicity files, and financial records pertaining to all aspects of the running of the magazine. The issue files contain materials specific to each issue of <span class=\"title\">Audience</span>, such as plans, schedules and correspondence.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Audience Records are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/17946#c210818'>Series I. Author files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1956-1977</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/17946#c213086'>Series II. Administrative files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1963-1976</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"title\">Audience</span> Records are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I. Author files, 1956-1977</li> <li>Series II. Administrative files, 1963-1976</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 2008</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Diana Bertolini.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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17 linear feet (41 boxes)
- date_start
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1956
- date_end
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1977