Американский Спектатор: Литературный Журнал 1932-1937 гг.

Literary magazine published from 1932 to 1937
the literary magazine

The American Spectator was a monthly literary magazine which made its first monthly appearance in November 1932. It was edited by George Jean Nathan, though Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser, and James Branch Cabell were also listed as joint editors. The original editors left the publication in 1935, after which the paper continued monthly publication under new editors until October 1936. The American Spectator lasted another six months on a bimonthly before folding altogether. Sherwood Anderson first published his short story entitled Brother Death in this journal.

The publication was heralded before the first issue had even been published. A mainstream newspaper gossip columnist wrote: "New York's literati are in a furious flutter over the last word in literary high hatting which is to be launched Nathan and Boyd will be the office editors and O'Neill, Lewis and Dreiser, editorial writers contributors will only contribute by special invitation from the editors Payment for material to editors and other contributors will be one cent a word. No salaries whatever are to be paid Nathan and Boyd until financial conditions, if ever, warrant it Contributors who have consented include Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, William Faulkner " None of those famous authors were ever published in The American Spectator, but the paper went on to become successful nonetheless.