Epoch (American magazine)
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 The cover of an Epoch magazine edition | |
| Editor | Michael Koch |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Triannual |
| Publisher | Cornell University |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Ithaca, New York |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0145-1391 |
Epoch is a triannual American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University. It has published well-known authors and award-winning work including stories reprinted in The Best American Short Stories series and poems later included in The Best American Poetry series.[1] It publishes fiction, poetry, essays, graphic art, and sometimes cartoons and screenplays, but no literary criticism or book reviews.[1]
Epoch is staffed by faculty and graduate students from the English Department creative writing program, and edited by Michael Koch. Epoch appears in September, January, and May, with issues generally running 128 to 160 pages.[1]
The magazine was established in 1947[2] by Baxter Hathaway, who arrived at Cornell University the year before to start a creative writing program. Initially, the magazine was a literary quarterly staffed by the English department.[1]
A story from the magazine's first volume was reprinted in Best American Short Stories and all of the fiction from that volume was cited in the anthology. In the 1950s and 1960s, Epoch featured the first published fiction of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, and early stories by Philip Roth, Stanley Elkin, and Joyce Carol Oates.[1]
Some other poets and writers who have appeared in the magazine are Jacob M. Appel,[3] Annie Dillard, Rick DeMarinis,[4] Jayne Anne Phillips, Andre Dubus, Amy Hempel, Lee K. Abbott, Charles Simic, Leslie Scalapino, Harriet Doerr, Denis Johnson, Ron Hansen,[5] John L'Heureux, Jorie Graham, Micah Perks, and Rick Bass.[6]
