Richard Yelle talks about New Work.

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Richard Yelle

Richard Yelle talks about New Work. Oral history interview with Richard Yelle by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 17, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 02:18.

Richard Yelle: So how did I get a magazine edited and published? Well, Rose [Slivka] helped with the publishing. She knew a Chinese printer in Soho that printed Chinese dailies for Chinatown. And so we are able to get a small run, and it was fairly inexpensive on, on newsprint. And, a fellow named Albert Lewis showed up from Utah. Albert Lewis was the founding editor of Studio Glass magazine, which no longer existed even at that time, but it had, it had been the only glass magazine that I knew of in the world, except for maybe Neues Glas, which was a German publication. But Albert Lewis was on, at loose ends, and he had editorial experience and he knew how to typeset. In those days, it was a machine, a huge machine that looked like an enormous typewriter. And you typed on a certain kind of paper and then you pasted it up on boards, and then they made plates at the printer, and they would just turn it into a newspaper. So I have to give Albert some, some real credit on that. So, of course, much later, New Work magazine turned into Glass magazine, which was, at the time I was told that New Work was too obscure. And, and we had to do a better job at branding. And that’s much later—probably closer to being in Brooklyn.