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literary magazine
Contact, literary magazine founded in 1920 by American authors Robert McAlmon and William Carlos Williams. Devoted to avant-garde writing of the period, it led to McAlmon’s important Contact book-publishing enterprise. Contact began as a mimeographed magazine in New York and relocated in Paris in 1921 following McAlmon’s marriage to English author Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman). It published four issues in 1920–21 and a fifth in 1923 and included writers such as its editors, Kay Boyle, H.D., Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Glenway Wescott; the magazine was then abandoned. Meanwhile, McAlmon published his short-story collection A Hasty Bunch himself ...(100 of 219 words)