Growth
By the late 1970s, New Orleans Review had gained widespread recognition, leading one of the magazine's editors to declare: "NOR has a much bigger reputation in Eastern Europe and South America than it does in New Orleans." And yet, the journal featured numerous regional and local writers, most notably publishing the first chapter of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel that would be rewarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously. In the 1980s and early 90s, with English professors John Biguenet, Bruce Hendrickson, and John Mosier at the helm, the magazine expanded to publish increasing numbers of works in translation, essays and features on cimemas, and portfolios of artwork.
Postcards and letters from readers in Italy, Denmark, and France attest to the international audience the Review achieved by the 1970’s.
Pages from a marked-up draft of Confederacy of Dunces, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel first published in the New Orleans Review issue 5.4.
1981 article profiling the New Orleans Review in The Times-Picayune
1984 advertisement for the New Orleans Review