Recorded in: New York, NY
Episode Length: 36:56
Air Date: January 6, 2020
Produced by: Jordan Weitzman
Edited by: Cristal Duhaime
In 1978, while living with her then boyfriend Tony Conrad in Buffalo, Anne Turyn founded Top Stories, a small, independent press. Over the course of 13 years, she would go on to publish 29 periodicals of experimental image and text work. She got avant garde artists like Laurie Anderson, Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller on board and basically gave them free reign to do what they wanted in between the covers and on them, as long as the Top Stories logo was on the front and an index of previous issues was on the back. They’re all so beautiful and somehow, when you look at them all together, there’s a total through line in terms of how they all look and feel.
Top Stories book covers
Links:
http://topstoriesperiodical.com
http://topstoriesperiodical.com