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from The Village Voice<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering Ed Fancher, a Village Voice Founder<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

He kept the paper alive through the early, lean years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0R.C. BAKER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Village Voice Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The front page of the January 4, 1956, issue of the Village Voice<\/em> looked much like the others that had run since a trio of World War II vets founded the paper, three months earlier: the elegant Voice<\/em> logo, designed by the painter Nell Blaine; a headline about Off-Broadway theater; a picture of the artist Marcel Duchamp, who had recently become an American citizen; and a headshot of the novelist Norman Mailer. What wasn\u2019t typical was one of the bylines: \u201cEdwin Fancher, Publisher of The Village Voice<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fancher had mostly handled the business end of things: advertising, circulation, and distribution. But in this eleventh issue of the paper, he announced, \u201cLeading Novelist to Write a Column for \u2018The Voice,\u2019\u201d followed by: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beginning with our next issue The Village Voice<\/em> will have a weekly column contributed to our pages by Norman Mailer. Mr. Mailer needs no introduction to most of our readers. At the age of 32 he has already had a most controversial career, and each of his three novels has received almost a total spectrum of praise and abuse. For your curiosity we quote these samples, inspired by The Naked and the Dead<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe greatest writer to come out of his generation\u201d \u2014 Sinclair Lewis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInsidious slime\u201d \u2014 Life<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Fancher went on to enumerate more of Mailer\u2019s contrasting reviews, noting that the famous writer had to go through six publishers before one would agree to print a \u201cdebatable passage\u201d of six lines contained in his third novel,\u00a0The Deer Park<\/em>, which, Fancher noted, \u201creceived without question the most contradictory and confusing reviews of any novel in years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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