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Gilbert Rogin (November 14, 1929–November 4, 2017) was an American journalist and author. He worked in a variety of roles at Time, Inc., published many short stories, and wrote three works of fiction. As a fiction writer, he has been compared to
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Time Inc. career

Rogin worked at ''
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'' for more than 30 years, eventually becoming the magazine's managing editor. Rogin's tenure was covered in Michael MacCambridge's ''The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine'', which addressed the story that Rogin named
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the 1983 Sportswoman of the Year due to an infatuation. In 1984, Rogin became managing editor of ''
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'', another Time Inc. title. Rogin was not able to revive the magazine, which was sold by Time, Inc. in 1987, although ''Discover'' won a 1986
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for general excellence. Rogin then worked as a corporate editor for the company. In 1992, Rogin helped to launch '' Vibe''; he claimed that the test issue was the first time the word "motherfucker" appeared in a Time, Inc. title. There was some controversy when Rogin decided to hire Jonathan Van Meter as editor-in-chief. Van Meter, a white man, was to oversee a magazine primarily about Black music and culture. Rogin retired from Time, Inc. at the end of 1992. Rogin also consulted and directed for Miller Publishing, which owned ''Blaze'', a spinoff of ''Vibe'', and ''
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Writing career

Rogin published many stories in ''
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'', mostly in the 1960s, but was allegedly barred after the rejection of a couple of submissions.
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deemed Rogin's stories "amazingly surreal". Rogin's stories were acknowledged by the
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in 1972. In a review of ''The Fencing Master'', the ''
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'' opined that "on a few occasions, the prose begins to take too much delight in itself, but a great deal of the book remains an intriguing adventure in tone." ''
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'' considered ''What Happens Next?'' "a novel of the first importance." ''
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'' wrote that "Rogin shares ohnCheever's awareness of risk, his sense that to turn a corner of the banal may be to find oneself in a howling waste of strangeness."
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, in ''The New York Times'', noted in his review of ''Preparations for the Ascent'' that Rogin "can be exasperating, unnecessarily oblique at times, but the confusions of his novel are more than redeemed by the literary pleasure of the journey itself." Frederick Exley considered Rogin to be the best writer in their age group. Rogin stopped writing fiction in 1980. In 2010, Rogin's novels were reissued as a single volume. In 2014, "12 Days Before the Mast", about a sailing competition, was listed as one of ''Sports Illustrated''s 60 best articles.


Bibliography

*''The Fencing Master'' (1965) *''What Happens Next?'' (1971) *''Preparations for the Ascent'' (1980)


References

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