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LISH v. HARPER'S MAGAZINE FOUNDATION

No. 91 Civ. 0782 (MEL).

807 F.Supp. 1090 (1992)

Gordon LISH, Plaintiff, v. HARPER'S MAGAZINE FOUNDATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

As Amended December 1 and December 3, 1992.

On Reconsideration January 7, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, for plaintiff; Jonathan J. Lerner, Paul Dutka, John Horan, of counsel.

Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, for defendant; Gregory L. Diskant, Rhonda Brown, Ellen Rothschild, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

The December 1990 issue of Harper's Magazine contained a piece under the title of "A Kind of Magnificence," which the table of contents described as by Gordon Lish. The magazine was distributed to more than 200,000 readers.

Lish is a well-known and controversial figure in the publishing industry — an avant-garde fiction writer associated with minimalism, an editor at Alfred A. Knopf...

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