Editor's note. The following links have been posted by request from Bob Judd)
Read Howard's daily blog at http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/ and
watch Howard dance to "Satisfaction" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Q76tYhUUo
Pictures at right:
1. - Howard & ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Amanda overlooking Alcatraz
2. - Howard & James Joyce
I skipped into Miss Joselyn's fifth grade just in time for Brian's court-martial (for being obnoxious or something.) In ninth grade I went away to Canterbury School in Connecticut, but I kind of kept up by going to the Christmas dances at the country club. I took Linda Cowlich to the Senior Prom (in the auditorium!) and fell in love with my brother's best friend's sister, Peggye Fowlie, a sophomore (HG); I also took Linda to my graduation party.
In Sept '61 I ran into Roy Ruderman on a Holland American Line ship. Roy hitched around Europe for 18 months, I lasted 10. Roy and his wife now live about a half mile away. In eighth grade he and I played on Dartmouth, in Saturday morning football; Roy was Right halfback, I was left, Buster was fullback (Rudy Cartesano played quarterback).
In the spring of 1963, I ran into Bill Miller on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum--I was herding a bunch of my ancient history students (I was teaching at Canterbury). Sometime in the mid-sixties, my mother ran into Bette Pillar in the city and invited her over for a Sunday lunch; I was still blushingly in total awe of her.
For the past 22 years, I've been the editor and publisher of ZYZZYVA, a literary magazine in San Francisco. Nona Figgatt sent some poems early on, but I was rude enough not to publish them. I ran into Bob Judd at a writers' conference in L.A. in the early nineties, and we see each other all the time.
My wife, Rozanne, runs a nonprofit that helps kids become the first in their families to graduate from college. Our daughter's a sophomore at American University. Last summer she volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and in January she's going back to Nairobi on an AU semester-abroad.
(Editor's note. The above was received from Howard in Oct
2006 and the following has been extracted from Howard's
www.zyzzyva.org
website)
The Editor of ZYZZYVA, Howard Junker, was born in Port Washington, NY, a
town Fitzgerald called East Egg in The Great Gatsby. He was educated at
Horace Greeley, Canterbury, Amherst (a classmate of David Hamilton, editor
of The Iowa Review, and a class ahead of DeWitt Henry, co-founder of
Ploughshares, and Peter Stine, founder of Witness), Stanford, and the
University of San Francisco. He bought his Ph.D for $35 from the Clayton
Theological Institute. He served in the Naval Air Reserve as an
antisubmarine warfare technician and has written for many magazines,
including Architectural Digest, Art in America, Artforum, Esquire, Film
Comment, Film Quarterly, Harper's Bazaar, The Nation, The New Republic, New
York, Newsweek, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and Vogue. He has
also worked as a documentary filmmaker, a television producer, a P.R. flack,
a construction carpenter, a fondue cook, and a junior high school science
teacher. He has appeared in the films The Werewolf of Washington, and I Am A
Sex Addict. He founded ZYZZYVA, a journal for West Coast writers and
artists, in 1985, and has edited five anthologies of work from its pages,
most recently, AutoBioDiversity (Heyday) as well as four ZYZZYVA first
novels and three ZYZZYVA first collections of poems. He lives in San
Francisco with his wife and their daughter, a sophomore in college in
Washington, D.C.
