Small Press Review
American magazine
Small Press Review was a literary magazine focused on books from independent and small publishers. Later issues included the Small Magazine Review, focused on magazines. Established in 1967 by Len Fulton, who also edited the magazine, Small Press Review was published by his company Dustbooks out of Paradise, California. It was published bimonthly, later becoming a monthly magazine in 1975. The magazine was one of the major efforts chronicling the world of small publishing. It ceased publication in 2015, four years after Fulton's death.
History
The magazine was established in 1967 by Len Fulton to enable a more "dynamic" analysis of the small press. Many small press materials available at that time were not widely available in libraries, and did not receive views in other literary review publications, often due to being literary chapbooks. Fulton said of this that:
It is either out of ignorance or creed that this happens or doesn’t happen—and it is our hope that Small Press Review will assault both barriers. [...] We hope to render it useful to libraries, universities and others as a periodic record of small-press publications and activities.
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