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...We’ve been trying so hard and it’s paid off,” said Millicent M. Younger ’10, publisher of the Advocate??the oldest published college literary magazine in the United States. “What it comes down to is doing a lot more work to get the same results...
...added jokingly to the audience. After each selection, Pinsky paused to speak with Urbina and Moses about how to proceed, giving the whole affair an impromptu feel. “The improvisational style of the music unlocked the internal energy of the poem,” said The Advocate??s president Sanders I. Bernstein ’10, who is also a Crimson Arts writer. “Pinsky and Rakalam both played off each other, the music responding to the fixed, internal rhythms of the poem and the words being given new depth by the music. What...
...building’s facade, the quaint white siding and green window frames belie the literary clout that lies within.Though the humble exterior may do well to conceal the presence of the country’s oldest continuously published college literary magazine, the interior tells a different story. The Advocate??s past literally envelops the space: the walls of the Sanctum are lined with rows of wooden plaques dating back to 1872. Names written in gold commemorate board members of each guard, the letters fading away with each older plate. To peruse these plaques along the perimeter...
...Unquestionably, some of the Advocate??s most notable alumni have been the most iconoclastic. Hanlon cites past “Advokats” Norman K. Mailer ’43, Frank O’Hara ’50, and John L. Ashbery ’49 as writers who followed their own ideas about writing rather than obeying the status quo, a central tenet of the Advocate??s philosophy...
...shared pride in Advocate history binds former members to the organization, even decades after their involvement as undergraduates. Louis H. Begley ’54, the critically-acclaimed author, was a member of the fiction board while at Harvard and is currently the Chairman Emeritus of the Advocate??s Board of Trustees. In 2000, an annual prize was established in his honor for the best fiction piece published in the magazine...