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Twice each year, somewhere around the beginning and middle of the calendar, I like to take a look back at books published long ago.
This is not simply a nostalgic exercise. If you never consider what came before, authors and publishers can delude themselves into believing they are first ever to explore some new literary territory.
But when you look at the past, you discover creativity has always been the cornerstone of book publishing and not every great book was published in the last six months.
It’s always about the writing. If you capture the heart and mind of a reader, you win.
So, as we look back fifty years to early 1967, maybe you can draw some conclusions about society and publishing.
We were deep into the 60’s and everything good and bad about them. Viet Nam was tearing apart America. There had yet to be the first Super Bowl and later this month, in 1967, three U.S. astronauts were killed in a fire in their Apollo spacecraft.
Society was going every possible direction at once, but books were still being written for readers to read.
The January 8, 1967 New York Times Best-seller list looked like this:
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- THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. (1969 movie starring Anthony Quinn. Author no relation to Michael Cricht
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Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady (1940-) was a papermaker, book designer, printer, publisher, artist, poet, and teacher. Hamady is best known for his Shadwell Paper Mill and the Perishable Press. Hamady founded both the Perishable Press and the Shadwell Paper Mill while he was a student at Wayne State University in 1964. In 1966, Hamady was hired as an art instructor at the University of Wisconsin where he taught letterpress printing for over thirty years. Hamady continued to operate the the Perishable Press with his wife Mary in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. The Perishable Press issued works of by many important authors including: Leonard Baskin, Jack Beal, Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, J.V. Cunningham, Harry Duncan, Robert Duncan, George Economou, Loren Eiseley, Mitchell Goodman, Donald Hall, Walter Hall, Sam Hamod, Michael Heller, William Heyen, David Kherdian, Galway Kinnell, Elizabeth Kner, Ellen Lanyon, James Laughlin, Denise Levertov, Harry Lewis, Robert Lowell, Khatchik Minasian, Toby Olson, George Oppen, Joel Oppenheimer, Rochelle Owens, Harry Mark Petrakis, Jerome Rothenberg, Norman Russell, Armand Schwerner, William DeWitt Snodgrass, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, William Edgar Stafford, Chri