Blast (U.S. magazine)

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Blast: Proletarian Short Stories was a short-lived literary magazine, published in the Bronx from 1933 to 1934. The magazine was edited by Fred Miller, described by his friend William Carlos Williams as then being "out of employment: a tool designer living precariously over a garage in Brooklyn. [1]

William Carlos Williams contributed five stories to Blast. Other contributors included Benjamin Appel, Ilya Ehrenburg and Len Zinberg. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Peter Marks (2012). "The Left in the 1930s". In Brooker, Peter; Thacker, Andrew (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. II: North America 1894-1960. Oxford University Press. pp. 891–97. ISBN   978-0-19-954581-0.