Revenant ReIssue #4: Bruno's Weekly (Issue 21, Nov. 8, 1916)

#4 in the Revenant ReIssues Series, this small pamphlet translates Issue 21 of the Bohemian proto-zine Bruno's Weekly in its entirety.

Edited & Annotated by Olchar E. Lindsann.

The little proto-zine Bruno’s Weekly published seventy-two issues between July 1915 and Dec. 1916, providing a lively and heterogeneous mix of news & social commentary on the cosmopolitan Bohemian community that already thrived in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York City, alongside poems, stories, artwork, and translations contributed by both local bohemians and avant-gardists across the world, as well as articles on the underground publishing network and international politics and culture. It championed the Imagist movement, sexual liberation, cosmopolitanism, and free speech. 

Bruno’s Weekly was just one part of the larger project of its editor, the German immigrant Guido Bruno, who also published a string of other small journals and a line of chapbooks (all priced at 5¢–10¢, cheap enough to trade or give away), ran a DIY gallery and performance space in his apartment dubbed “Bruno’s Garret” (whose closing is recorded in this issue), and collaborated on a small avant-garde black-box theatre with Thomas Edison’s son, Charles.

This slim zine presents a facsimile of Issue 21 of Bruno's Weekly in its entirety, plus a tipped-in  4-page supplement with introduction and translator's notes.

Featuring texts by: Guido Bruno, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sadakichi Hartmann, Anton Checkov, Friedrich Nietzsche, & Robert Carlton Brown, and Momus; and images by Félix Valloton, John Duncan Fergusson, & others; plus articles on Frank Harris and the American Little Magazine network.