From 1936 to 1991, the New Directions anthology served as a showcase for writers seeking to extend the frontiers of literature. Essentially a literary magazine in book form, the “Annual” (though in its later years, a semiannual publication) was at the core of the New Directions list. Peter Glassgold joined ND’s founder and publisher James Laughlin as coeditor of thirty-one numbers of this renowned and now legendary series, which first showed the light of modernism in literature to generations of American readers and writers.

New Directions. 1936—1991.