Gilbert Rogin (1929–2017)
Author of What Happens Next? & Preparations for the Ascent: Two Novels
About the Author
Gilbert Leslie Rogin was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1929. He graduated from Columbia College. In 1951, he began a brief stint at The New Yorker as an office gofer. He served in the Army for two years before joining Sports Illustrated in 1955. His job was to clip articles from show more newspapers and the wire services for filing in the magazine's library, but soon he became a reporter. He was the managing editor of Sports Illustrated from 1979 to 1984. He then moved to the struggling science magazine Discover and helped stabilize it. In 1987, he became corporate editor, the No. 3 editing position in the Time Inc. empire. He also wrote short fiction. The New Yorker published his first story, Ernest Observes, in 1963 and his last, The Hard Parts, in November 1978. The magazine published more than 30 of his stories. His short stories also appeared in other magazines. A story collection, The Fencing Master, was published in 1965. He also wrote two novels entitled What Happens Next? and Preparations for the Ascent. He stopped writing fiction in 1980 when The New Yorker's fiction editor rejected one of his submissions because he was repeating himself. He died on November 4, 2017 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Gilbert Rogin
Associated Works
Sports Illustrated | January 28, 1980 | This One Was Really Super / Pittsburgh Steelers John Stallworth (1980) — Editor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Rogin, Gilbert Leslie
- Birthdate
- 1929-11-14
- Date of death
- 2017-11-04
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Columbia University (BA)
- Occupations
- writer
magazine editor - Organizations
- Sports Illustrated
Discover Magazine
Vibe - Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1972)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Despite the claim on the cover, these are not novels, they're short stories featuring the same protagonist and a cast of recurring characters. There is no real sense of progression, rather the books are composed of unrelated episodes strung together in which sometimes the supporting characters change attributes, such as the stepdaughter being 14 years old in one chapter and 13 a couple of chapters later.
The stories are witty, but I don't recommend you read them all at once - many of them are show more experimental in form, such as being composed mostly of footnotes or being presented as a story within a story that the characters comment on. Too many at once can be exhausting. The style reminds me of Donald Barthelme without the absurd premises. show less
The stories are witty, but I don't recommend you read them all at once - many of them are show more experimental in form, such as being composed mostly of footnotes or being presented as a story within a story that the characters comment on. Too many at once can be exhausting. The style reminds me of Donald Barthelme without the absurd premises. show less
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