{"id":41123,"date":"2020-08-06T12:03:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=41123"},"modified":"2020-08-06T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:03:28","slug":"klei-edits-the-brooklynite-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/06\/klei-edits-the-brooklynite-now\/","title":{"rendered":"“Klei edits The Brooklynite now”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the Lovecraft circle, Rheinhart Kleiner had once edited a monthly New York paper called The Brooklynite<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Klei edits The Brooklynite now, & if he can surmount the difficulties of his task \u2014 the thankless task of recording social gossip \u2014 he will produce a paper worth a more careful reading than most Brooklynites. — Lovcraft, letter to Galpin, 1918. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This paper was read by Lovecraft during 1918, as Kleiner appears to have sent a copy of each issue. The magazine’s approach might have strongly shaped Lovecraft’s perception and awareness of Brooklyn, in terms of his later settling there.<\/p>\n

The modern Brooklyn Magazine<\/a><\/em> ran a short profile of the magazine in 2013. This found the magazine still lively and fresh, and revealed that the Brooklyn Historical Society only has…<\/p>\n

“issues span the years 1926 through 1930.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Little changes in some areas of human experience, it seems. One article in the magazine, it was noted…<\/p>\n

recounts the existential crisis that one writer endured while he was waiting to have a phone placed in his apartment. Titled \u201cNumber Please,\u201d the author writes, \u201cTo pass through the seemingly simple procedure of having a telephone installed is usually enough to hurry a normal person through the throes of dementia.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have some idea of it via Lovecraft’s noting of its poetry in his critical columns…<\/p>\n

The general frivolity of The Brooklynite is doubtless due to the fact that this publication is designed primarily as a relaxation for persons engaged in other and more serious activities. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elsewhere, a rare copy for sale terms it the “Official Organ of the Blue Pencil Club”, and The Fossil<\/em> for 2017 confirms…<\/p>\n

Brooklyn\u2019s Blue Pencil Club held regular meetings and sponsored The Brooklynite through many decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lovecraft not only read it, but was published in it, though perhaps not under Kleiner — it appears the history of the editorship remains to be written. Lovecraft’s long poetic celebration of “Providence” saw print in The Brooklynite<\/em> for November 1924, for instance. Later, a comic poem Lovecraft had written for a Blue Pencil Club meeting was published in The Brooklynite<\/em> for January 1926. One wonders if the publication may have also served as some sort of inspiration for the later commercial and even spicier Home Brew<\/em> thus, by a sideways shift, giving Lovecraft another publication in which to publish fiction? <\/p>\n

Back in 2013 I noted here<\/a> that the archives of Vassar College<\/a> has a good run of this publication…<\/p>\n

1917-1918, 1921, 1923-1944.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… but it appears that these have still not been digitised or inspected by Lovecraftians or the historians of Brooklyn. Possibly The Fossil<\/em> might run an article surveying the history and phases of the publication, and thus encourage a public scanning and digitisation of the Vassar College run, perhaps combined with that of the Brooklyn Historical Society?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the Lovecraft circle, Rheinhart Kleiner had once edited a monthly New York paper called The Brooklynite… Klei edits The …<\/p>\n

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