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Phoenix rise of radical magazine owner on a Whately farm
Jim Cooney, 69, a former failed farmer and lifelong dissenter, runs Morning Star Farm in West Whately and publishes The Phoenix, a radical literary quarterly begun in 1938. The magazine, printed on site and mailed to about 2,800 subscribers, is the country’s sole radical literary journal. Cooney, who has faced bankruptcy and wartime draft resistance, says the Phoenix survives on outside work and prints unknown writers who may shape literature, while he rails against government and taxes and notes FBI scrutiny since 1941.
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