Contact

Contact, literary magazine founded in 1920 by American authors Robert McAlmon and William Carlos Williams. Devoted to avant-garde writing of the period, it led to McAlmon’s important Contact book-publishing enterprise. Contact began as a mimeographed magazine in New York and relocated in Paris in 1921 following McAlmon’s marriage to English author Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman). It published four issues in 1920–21 and a fifth in 1923 and included writers such as its editors, Kay Boyle,...