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MAGAZINES

On the whole, when I wrote these, I was just getting into a good period with the novels and magazine assignments. I felt that my life was starting to come together. 1963 was the year of the big newspaper strike in New York. The result was that TV local news went to thirty minutes and stayed there until it went to an hour and then two hours in the 1970s and 1980s. 1963 was also the year I did my first and only piece for Ebony. I don't believe the magazine has done much on writers and literature since. A part of the Ebony family was The Negro Digest (later Black World), edited by Hoyt Fuller, now dead, so there was no real need, perhaps, for Ebony to do more. But Black World closed down late in the 1970s and nothing has replaced it, so there is a void.

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"THE LITERARY GHETTO," in Saturday Review. Vol. XLVI, No. 16 (20 April 1963).

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"NEGRO LITERATURE TODAY," in Ebony. Vol XVIII, No. 11 (September 1963).

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"TALES OF CHILDHOOD," in Negro Digest. Vol. XII, No. 3 (January 1963).
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"SEX IN BLACK & WHITE," in Cavalier. Vol. 13, No. 123 (September 1963). Also appears in Flashbacks (1973).

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"GLAD SONG OF THE A-TRAIN," in Cavalier. Vol. 13, No. 117 (March 1963).

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"NEITHER LIFE ENOUGH NOR TIME," in The New Leader. Vol. XLVI, No. 11 (27 May 1963).
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Original photograph of Williams at his typewriter, 1964.
Photo by Jean Lattes.

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