Three magazines that I miss and would love to see revived are Negro Digest (aka Black World), Quinto Lingo, and Book Digest. I have a few issues of each magazine.
Negro Digest published by Johnson Publishing, the publishers of Ebony and Jet, and later renamed Black World, was a magazine that featured articles, essays, short stories, poetry, and book reviews by leading writers and academics like Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, Addison Gayle, Jr., et al. Despite that, it was accessible to a lay audience. If Black World were around today, I can see Ta-Nehisi Coates, Edwidge Danticat, Walter Mosley, Michael Eric Dyson, among others writing for it for a new generation.
Quinto Lingo was for language enthusiasts. Stories were presented in five languages side by side (hence the magazine's name). Those languages were English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian. There were also English-only articles in each issue focusing on a particular language like the one called "If You Speak Spanish You Can Speak Ladino" (May 1969).
Book Digest was a Reader's Digest for book lovers like myself. Each issue carried a condensed version of fiction and nonfiction books like Peter Straub's supernatural novel Ghost Story (September 1979). Although the books selected were in the best seller category, a contemporary version could also include non-best sellers that would be of interest to bibliophiles.
These magazines are sorely missed by me and I would welcome them back in a heartbeat.
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