Journal Issue
Photography/poetry by Simon Perchik & Larence Shustak gives Trace no. 68 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print (for Who[m] May Be Concerned) by James Boyer May and Northern California by Robert Reilly widen the issue’s field. Dated Mid–1968, this expansive number indexes 46 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.
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- Photography/poetry — Simon Perchik & Larence Shustak [Artwork, p. 5]
- Towards Print (for Who[m] May Be Concerned) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 10]
- Northern California — Robert Reilly [Poem, p. 17]
- Edward Albee . . . and the Fear of Virginia Woolf — Abigail Ann Hamblen [Essay, p. 18]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 26]
- The Same Cowboy Rides Again — Victor Contoski [Correspondence, p. 26]
- From Darker Kalamazoo — Victor Contoski [Correspondence, p. 27]
- 24 Hours in Chapel (Hill): Some Notes on the Southeastern Little Magazine Conference — William F. Claire [Contribution, p. 31]
- My Successful Novel: Two Sides (of the story) — Guy Owen [Essay, p. 41]
- A View — L. W. Michaelson [Contribution, p. 48]
- 3:30 in the life of an intelligent man — Fred Levinson [Contribution, p. 68]
- Poetasting — Philip Hammial [Contribution, p. 71]
- The Road to Eden — Marek Skwarnicki [Contribution, p. 76]
- Lesson [Contribution, p. 77]
- The Rape of the Spider of Vera Cruz — George Dillon Slater [Contribution, p. 85]
- To Give the Lie — Russell Banks [Fiction, p. 87]
- One of the Intimate Memoirs — Barry D’lott [Fiction, p. 97]
- Of Alvin Edward Cooper — Barry D’lott [Contribution, p. 97]
- Barry D’lott [Contribution, p. 99]
- Number 781 — Charles B. Victor [Fiction, p. 107]
- Excerpts from a Novel in Progress — Clarence Major [Fiction, p. 113]
- Clarence Major [Contribution, p. 116]
- 25 [Contribution, p. 119]
- 27 [Contribution, p. 120]
- Clarence Major [Contribution, p. 123]
- Clarence Major [Contribution, p. 126]
- The Artist & His World [Contribution, p. 127]
- A Lively Museum of Youth and Desire — Robert Lowry [Fiction, p. 128]
- (Excerpts from Book III) — Robert Lowry [Contribution, p. 128]
- (Satire on American English Verse, circa 2066 A.D.) — Apo Etsp Rogre Ess [Contribution, p. 135]
- A Fable for Rat Psychologists, Administrators, & Manipulators — Frederick Candelaria [Contribution, p. 137]
- Letter to a Southern Gentleman from His Son — Brown Miller [Contribution, p. 140]
- Drosophila Melanogaster: the fruit fly — Theodore Kitaif [Contribution, p. 142]
- Confessions — Theodore Kitaif [Contribution, p. 143]
- Theodore Kitaif [Contribution, p. 145]
- Youth is Power One — Frederick Castle [Contribution, p. 147]
- Youth is Power Two — Frederick Castle [Contribution, p. 148]
- On Film Acting — Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 150]
- There Are Moments — Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 150]
- The two virtuosi — together (?) [Contribution, p. 155]
- Lee J. Cobb says it right [Contribution, p. 156]
- The universal sex-pig [Contribution, p. 159]
- Everett Sloane’s Mr. Bernstein remembers one of his Moments [Contribution, p. 159]
- Deadlier than the Plot! — A. Fredric Franklyn [Poem, p. 160]
- The Chronicle [Reference, p. 167]
- Drawings [Artwork, p. 168]
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Trace, no. 68 (Mid–1968). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.