{"id":45982,"date":"2025-01-09T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=45982"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:28:59","slug":"biddle-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/biddle-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Marvelous, Turbulent Times\u2019 When a Literary Magazine Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">A fellow alum\u2019s passing sparked vivid memories of launching the <em>Cornell Review<\/em>, a cutting-edge journal of ideas, in the late 1970s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2ad5539e0eb55afb7f132cae15230941\"><em>\u201cChime In\u201d comprises brief first-person essays by Cornellians. Do you have a topic in mind? Email us at <a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#108;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x63;&#x6f;rne&#x6c;&#x6c;&#105;&#97;&#110;&#x73;&#64;&#x63;&#111;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x65;l&#x6c;&#46;&#101;d&#x75;\">&#99;&#111;&#114;&#x6e;&#101;&#x6c;&#108;i&#x61;&#110;&#115;&#64;&#99;&#111;&#x72;&#x6e;e&#108;&#x6c;&#46;e&#x64;&#x75;<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: The publication recalled in this essay is unrelated to the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecornellreview.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campus newspaper<\/a> of the same name.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Wayne Biddle \u201970<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">\u201cIs a pen a metaphorical penis?\u201d When I saw this sentence, I knew we had something good. Sandra Mortola Gilbert \u201957 was set to publish a book called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300246728\/the-madwoman-in-the-attic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Madwoman in the Attic<\/a><\/em> and had graciously given us an excerpt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As associate editor and designer of the <em>Cornell Review, <\/em>it was one of my myriad tasks to \u201cpaste up\u201d by hand the long paper columns of text we received from the typesetter in Syracuse for every page of each issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year was 1979: no desktop publishing software, no landmark work of feminist literary criticism (yet).<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Biddle\" class=\"wp-image-45979 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-632x790.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-316x395.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-70x87.jpg 70w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A-100x125.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/biddle-headshot-A.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Review <\/em>had started two years earlier as a journal published by the College of Arts &amp; Sciences that would bring cutting-edge scholarship and fine arts from the University campus to the Cornell community beyond Ithaca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmc.library.cornell.edu\/EAD\/htmldocs\/RMA02198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baxter Hathaway<\/a>, recently retired from the English department as founder of the creative writing program and <em>Epoch <\/em>magazine, was editor. An advisory board included faculty stars like Carl Sagan, Jim McConkey, Archie Ammons, Harry Levin, and Tom Eisner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/cornell-review-cover-A.jpg\" alt=\"A cover of the Cornell Review literary magazine\" class=\"wp-image-45980 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/cornell-review-cover-A.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/cornell-review-cover-A-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/cornell-review-cover-A-275x395.jpg 275w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/cornell-review-cover-A-348x500.jpg 348w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/cornell-review-cover-A-174x250.jpg 174w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/cornell-review-cover-A-87x125.jpg 87w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>After my two-year stint as a (non-degreed) MFA student under Baxter\u2019s mentorship, he asked me to help him produce this new periodical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there we were, ensconced on the rickety second floor of Baxter\u2019s old clapboard building at 108 North Plain Street, where chapbooks in his Ithaca House poetry series were pounded out on an ancient letterpress machine in the basement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baxter\u2019s Rolodex was a cornucopia of 20th-century literary luminaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHello, Tom?\u201d I would hear him rasp on the phone as he lined up cigarette filters across his desk like spent handgun cartridges.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Tom would happen to be <a href=\"https:\/\/thomaspynchon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Pynchon \u201959<\/a>, whom big-time editors in Manhattan would have given their eye teeth to reach so easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom never sent us anything, but plenty of others did, including Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Don DeLillo, Robert Bly, May Swenson, Josephine Jacobsen, Joy Williams, and on and on from literary constellations alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Baxter\u2019s Rolodex was a cornucopia of 20th-century literary luminaries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of Sandra Gilbert\u2019s poems appeared in the fall 1977 issue, when my contributor\u2019s note said that she was \u201cworking on a two-volume study of 19th and 20th century literature by women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In retrospect, this was rather like saying circa 1928 that Virginia Woolf was working on a speech about women\u2019s access to education. But never mind, the fact was that 70-something Baxter and 20-something me had no problem with \u201cIs a pen a metaphorical penis?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Au contraire<\/em>, we knew it was dynamite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those were marvelous, turbulent times and Cornell was usually out in front with progressive ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Review<\/em> lasted just seven issues over three years, though we enjoyed generous patronage from a score of Cornell friends, especially writer and art critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/10\/books\/10friedman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B.H. \u201cBob\u201d Friedman \u201948<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Baxter Hathaway\" class=\"wp-image-46006 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-1264x1580.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-632x790.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-316x395.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-70x87.jpg 70w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335-100x125.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Baxter_Hathaway_RMC2009_0335.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">rare and manuscript collections<\/figcaption><figcaption>Prof. Baxter Hathaway, who passed away in 1984.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Baxter\u2019s health was shaky, as was financing from the college. Ambition pulled me toward the Big Apple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his Editor\u2019s Notes column for the final issue, Baxter called attention to an estimate in the June 1979 <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em> that the total number of people who could be counted on to support serious intellectual projects in America was no more than 1,100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/madwoman-attic-A.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of &quot;The Madwoman in the Attic&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-45981 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/madwoman-attic-A.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/madwoman-attic-A-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/madwoman-attic-A-255x395.jpg 255w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/madwoman-attic-A-323x500.jpg 323w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/madwoman-attic-A-161x250.jpg 161w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/madwoman-attic-A-81x125.jpg 81w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>\u201cThere are more of you than the general statistics say we had any right to expect,\u201d he wrote, addressing our readership, \u201cand we have all held together to make a little bit of history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Sandra Gilbert died in November 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/18\/books\/sandra-gilbert-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her obit<\/a> in the<em> New York Times<\/em> reprised the now-famous first sentence and lauded <em>Madwoman<\/em> as a \u201cgroundbreaking work of literary criticism that became a feminist classic\u201d like Kate Millett\u2019s <em>Sexual Politics<\/em> and Elaine Showalter\u2019s <em>A Literature of Their Own<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my knowledge, our excerpt in the<em> Cornell Review<\/em> was the only such circulation outside the book\u2019s first Yale University Press edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Baxter died in 1984 and now I\u2019m older than he was then. Progressive ideas are more endangered than ever, but big things sometimes appear first in small windows and then propagate exponentially, with only enough time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>An electrical engineering major on the Hill, <\/em><em style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/waynebiddle.com\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne Biddle \u201970<\/a><\/em><em> has been a contributing editor at <\/em>Harper\u2019s<em> and a reporter at the <\/em>New York Times<em>, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for writing about the \u201cStar Wars\u201d anti-missile system. 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