by Emily Schwing and Cameron Nordholm
In its heyday, The Carleton Miscellany was a contemporary, avante-garde and unpretentious compilation of some of the best comtemporary American literature. For exactly 20 years, subscribers from all over the country--and world--flocked to its pages, consuming the work by some of the greatest authors to come out of the 20th century.
But what happened? Why did the Miscellany disappear just as abruptly as it started? And where are the back issues today? One of Carleton’s favorite English professors, Mike Kowalewski of the Carleton English department, introduces us to what was once one of the Midwest’s most celebrated and sought-after private publications.