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''The Outsider'' was a 1960s literary magazine published by Loujon Press. "The Outsider" brought the work of
Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...
to national attention, in addition to publishing work by such notable writers as
Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ...
and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and ...
, along with artwork by Noel Rockmore.


Overview

''The Outsider'' was started in 1961. The founding company was Loujon Press, which was the product of Jon Edgar Webb and his wife Gypsy Lou Webb. In addition to ''The Outsider'', Loujon published two books each by Charles Bukowski and
Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, so ...
. The Bukowski books were the poet's first major publications. For the first issue of ''The Outsider'', the Webbs painstakingly printed each page of every copy individually on an archaic hand-
press Press may refer to: Media * Publisher * News media * Printing press, commonly called "the press" * Press TV, an Iranian television network Newspapers United States * ''The Press'', a former name of ''The Press-Enterprise'', Riverside, California ...
in their
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apartment; later three issues were printed on a slightly less outdated 19th century clamshell press. An image of Gypsy Lou appeared on the cover of every issue, sometimes as the sole subject, other times as a secondary figure (for example the third issue had Bukowski as the main figure on the cover, celebrating him as "the Outsider of the Year"). After publishing a total four issues ''The Outsider'' ceased publication in June 1969. In 2007 a documentary, ''The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press'', was filmed in which Gypsy Lou Webb told the story of how she and her husband Jon Webb published ''The Outsider''.


References and resources

* Burdeau, Cain. "'Gypsy Lou' Webb's Story is one of Love and Books in Bohemian New Orleans." Associated Press. August 8, 2008. * Ewing, Wayne. ''The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press'' (Wayne Ewing Films, 2007). * Weddle, Jeff. "The Loujon Press, Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski." ''Publishing History'' 58: 2005, pp 79–109. * Weddle, Jeff. ''Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press'' (University Press of Mississippi, 2007).


External links


Official site for ''The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press''

Publisher's page for ''Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press''

Loujon Press Collection
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The Historic New Orleans Collection
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