75 Years Ago in These Pages
“Who on earth asks you to go on editing a literary magazine? The answer, of course, is nobody. This sort of business is as a rule considered a gratuitous activity, as unimportant as throwing yourself out of the window. . . . There is no true editorship when everything is safe and prosperous. It is the essence of a literary magazine’s life to be always uncertain of tomorrow, to correct some of the most essential misprints after the issue is out, to run the gamut of printer’s bills and yet to be determined never to give up the fight. To direct a magazine grateful from a secure eminence for the hermetic pleasures of a clique is a very questionable thing to do.”
—Miron Grindea quoted by Ernst Erich Noth, “Are Editors Curable?”
Books Abroad 24, no. 4 (Autumn 1950): 429–30
A Romanian-born Jewish intellectual and committed antifascist, Miron Grindea (1909–1995) was the longtime editor of Adam International Review, founded in Bucharest in 1929. At the outbreak of World War II Grindea sought refuge in London, where he lived the remainder of his life, editing 500 numbers of the magazine.
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