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Holiday
CategoriesTravel magazine
Frequencybi-annual
First issue1946;78 years ago(1946)
Final issue1977;47 years ago(1977)
CountryUnited States
Based inPhiladelphia
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.holiday-magazine.com
ISSN0018-3520

Holidaywas an American travel magazine published from 1946 to 1977, whose circulation grew to more than one million subscribers at its height. The magazine employed writers such asAlfred Bester,Truman Capote,Joan Didion,Lawrence Durell,James Michener,andE. B. White.

In 2014, the magazine was relaunched as a bi-annual magazine based in Paris, but written in English.[1]

History[edit]

Launched by theCurtis Publishing Company,the first issue ofHolidayappeared in March 1946. The magazine was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the Curtis Center nearIndependence Hall.After a lackluster start, with the fifth issueTed Patrickbecame editor, a position he held until his sudden death in 1964.[2]By the end of the first year the circulation topped 425,000.[3]

The magazine was known as a cosmopolitan travel wishbook with photo essays in full-color oversize 11 X 13.5 package along with articles by famous authors.[3]John Lewis Stage, a photographer for Holiday described how Patrick enlisted name authors: "The concept was basically to get famous authors who had maybe one or two weeks in between their books or projects to go and travel and write glorious pieces. So you’d haveJames Michenersent off to the South Pacific, for example. It was an intriguing way to put together a magazine. It was an oddball publication that used photographs to tell stories ".[3]

Paul Theroux writing about Paul Bowles said of the magazine, "The frivolous name masked a serious literary mission. The English fiction writers,V. S. PritchettandLawrence Durrellalso traveled for this magazine, so didJohn Steinbeckafter he won his Nobel Prize for literature, when he crisscrossed the United States with his dog....Bowles wrote a piece forHolidayabout hashish, another of his enthusiasms, since he was a life-long stoner.[4]

The magazine came of age in theJet Age,when Americans were beginning to travel for leisure and joining thejet setwas a glamorous aspiration.[3]A Vanity Fair article in 2013 stated that "what Vogue did for fashion, Holiday did for destinations.[3]Many remember the atmosphere of the editorial department as resemblingMad-Men.The son of executive editor Carl Biemiller described the atmosphere "there was one hell of acocktail-partycircuit... "[3]

E. B. White wrote his 7500-word essay on the city of New York, "Here is New York",for the magazine in 1949. White's stepson,Roger Angell,worked at the magazine in 1948.The essay was published as a gift book byHarperand it was also released as aBook-of-the-Month Clubedition. Vanity Fair has since said of the essay, "It would become not only one of the most famous essays ever composed about the island of Manhattan but perhaps the finest. Over the years its plaintive language has been categorized as both poem and hymn." After 9/11, Vanity Fair also published the essay in book form in 2002 as a tribute.[3]

By 1961 the magazine was making almost $10 million a year in revenue, and by the next year circulation had grown to just under a million.[3]

After Ted Patrick's sudden death in 1964[5]there were internal issues between the current staff and Curtis Publishing Company over the direction of the magazine. Don A. Schanche ofThe Saturday Evening Postsucceeded Patrick as editor.[6]In response four of the editors, Harry Sions (editorial director), Frank Zachary (managing editor), Albert H. Farnsworth (executive editor), and Louis F. V. Mercier (pictures editor) resigned.[7]Several of the magazine's writers, artists and photographers put out a large ad in the New York Times to "salute" the four as "good editors."[7]

In 1977, Curtis soldHolidayto the publisher ofTravel,a competing magazine, who merged the titles as a new publication,Travel Holiday.[8]

21st century relaunch[edit]

Holidayrelaunched in April 2014 by the Atelier Franck Durand, a Paris-based art direction studio, with Marc Beaugé as editor-in-chief and Franck Durand as creative director.[9][10]The magazine is a bi-annual, conceived in Paris and written in English. Its official website mentions an upcoming café[11]and clothing line. Durand described the new magazine, "It is not like the old Holiday when they had millions and they'd travel for weeks and week. But the concept is the same."[12]

The issue n°373 ofHoliday Magazine,first issue since the relaunch, was dedicated to the year 1969 and Ibiza.[13]

The issue n°373 includes contributions from photographers Josh Olins,[14]Karim Sadli and Mark Peckmezian, a short novel about Ibiza by novelist Arthur Dreyfus, a story onInez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's New York loft, and the cover features a chosen fragment of Remed's painting "Leonogone". The first issue featured an essay about the history of the originalHoliday Magazine.[12]

Notable editors[edit]

  • Carl Biemiller (also children's book author)[3]
  • John Knowles,American novelist[3]
  • Ted Patrick, editor in 1948 until his death in 1964[3]
  • Harry Sions, former war correspondent[3]
  • Alfred Bester, literary editor (also novelist, screenwriter, and renowned science fiction writer of The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination)[3]

Notable writers and articles[edit]

Notable artists, illustrators, and photographers[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Powers, Rebecca (9 April 2020)."Holiday magazine: The rise and fall of the glamorous mid-century travel publication".Washington Post.
  2. ^"Ted Patrick Dies".The New York Times.1964-03-12.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2018-05-30.
  3. ^abcdefghijklmCallahan, Michael (May 2013)."The Visual and Writerly Genius of Holiday Magazine".Vanity Fair.Retrieved2018-05-30.
  4. ^abBowles, Paul (2010).Travels: collected writings, 1950-93.Theroux, Paul. (1st United States ed.). New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.ISBN978-0062067630.OCLC747428794.
  5. ^"TED PATRICK DIES; MAGAZINE EDITOR; Man of Many Interests Built Up Holiday's Circulation".The New York Times.1964-03-12.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2018-06-09.
  6. ^"Holiday Magazine Gets New Editor".The New York Times.1964-03-20.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2018-06-06.
  7. ^ab"HARRY SIONS DIES; A BOOK EDITOR, 68; Held Little, Brown Senior Position,Since 1965 Was War Correspondent".Retrieved2018-06-04.
  8. ^"Holiday magazine sold to Travel"The Ledger(Lakeland, Florida), July 10, 1977, p. 6B.
  9. ^Holidayrelaunch announcementHoliday-magazine.com
  10. ^"Franck Durand re-launches famous lifestyle magazine Holiday"A Shaded View of Fashion By Diane Pernet
  11. ^"Holiday Café"Holiday-magazine.com
  12. ^abSchneier, Matthew (2014-03-26)."Of Sojourns Past and Future".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2018-06-06.
  13. ^"Holiday Magazineresurrects with a fashion vibe "Women's Wear Daily.com
  14. ^"Holiday MagazineIs Here Again "Style.com
  15. ^Garner, Dwight (20 May 2022)."Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball with Passion, Dies at 101".The New York Times.
  16. ^Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher (1999).An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles.Grove Press.ISBN9780802136008.
  17. ^"Seeing North Africa through the writings of Paul Bowles".The Seattle Times.2011-12-10.Retrieved2018-06-03.
  18. ^Kent (1990).A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks.ISBN9780813116594.
  19. ^Denham, Robert D. (2010-12-22).Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s.McFarland. p. 136.ISBN9780786480166.
  20. ^""A JOURNEY TO MARS" by Arthur C. Clarke – March 1953 ".HOLIDAY.2012-03-06.Retrieved2018-06-10.
  21. ^abMiller, Arthur (2014-02-19).""A Boy Grew In Brooklyn" by Arthur Miller — March 1955 issue ".HOLIDAY.Retrieved2018-06-10.

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