ON THE COVER
When we weren’t discovering soon-to-blow-up new talent, NOW would occasionally seek face time with an entertainment legend. In this issue, we flew down to Washington, DC, to catch up with Lou Reed on the heels of the release of New York, his 20th album. Reed was open, funny and seemed to change personalities when he took off the dark glasses. (Page 22 of the issue.)
IN THE NEWS
We feted 100 years of International Women’s Day this month, but two decades ago, then-premier feminist publishing house Women’s Press was collapsing in splinters over racism. At issue was whether fiction writers could legitimately draw characters from and express the aspirations of a minority group of which they were not members. Nasty. (Page 10 of the issue.)
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