The Free You Newsletter
The Free You was no ordinary newsletter. Besides the usual announcements and in-house news, it published stories, poems, essays, humor, reviews, travel pieces, re-prints, commentary, and even recipes, accompanied by photographs, illustrations and art work, often in color, in a magazine-like format, utilizing the recently developed IBM Selectric Composer. Like the catalogs, which used the same technology, it was widely distributed.
Its editorial policy was, like the MFU's classes, wide-open. Any member of the community could submit an article, story, poem or what-have-you, and it would be published with minimum editing by the staff. It also published original work by well-known writers and poets—Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Thom Gunn, Ed McClanahan, Gurney Norman.
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