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While working at the Southern Literary Messenger Edgar Allan Poe wrote book reviews and short stories, soon making the magazine the most popular in the south.

The 1920s were peak times for the Harlem Renaissance and Hurston was one of its important writers; in 1925 she wrote 'spunk," and it was selected for publication in The New Negro literary magazine.

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1. In 1929 Antoine's first novel Courrier Sud (Southern Mail) was published. It followed the publication of his novella The Aviator, which was published in a literary magazine.

2. "Giftschrank". A German lockbox or reading room containing literary works deemed dangerous to society. Past examples include the writings of Martin Luther, Mein Kampf, and even western fashion magazines (In East Germany).

3. Two critics of modernist poetry wrote a series of poems in one afternoon using "the first words that came to their heads" and got them published to one of the most significant literary magazines in Australia. The publisher loved them and was later humiliated when the hoax was revealed.

4. Fuck You" was a literary magazine founded in 1962 on the Lower East Side of New York City. It was dedicated to free expression, and especially defying the taboos around sex and drugs, advocating free love promiscuity and the use of psychedelics

5. Don DeLillo's first published short story was titled The River Jordan. It was published in 1960 in Cornell University's literary magazine Epoch.

6. In 1926 she, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman produced a literary magazine called Fire!!

7. In 1915 Fernando and several other poets and artists established the magazine Orpheu, a literary publication. It only had two issues before it closed down due to financial trouble.

8. The literary magazine Fire!! published its first issue in November of 1926. Its headquarters ironically burned down shortly after.

9. David Foster Wallace received a variety of awards for his work including the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction in 1997, Time magazine's Best Books of the Year in 1996, Salon Book Award in 1996, the Lannan Literary Award in 1996, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012.

10. During WWII, the Terezín concentration camp (in present-day Czech Republic) had a literary magazine called Vedem, run entirely by Jewish boys 13 to 16 years old. Over 700 pages of it survive today, and they are readable online.

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