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Welcome to the new old literary magazine, The Saturday Evening Quill. New because this is the first time all three issues are in print and available since the Harlem Renaissance. New because the writing is as pertinent and moving now as it was then. The renaissance of African American politics and art wasn't limited to Harlem. Boston’s Saturday Evening Quill Club published its celebrated literary magazine, The Saturday Evening Quill, annually from 1928 to 1930. The issues contain short stories, plays, essays, poems, and drawings by some of the most talented, prolific, and distinguished writers and artists of the era, including Dorothy West, Edythe May Gordon, Florida Ruffin Ridley, and Waring Cuney. W.E.B. Du Bois said of The Saturday Evening Quill, “Of the booklets issued by young Negro writers in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere, this collection from Boston is by far the most interesting and the best.” Enjoy this periodical-sized book, carefully collated, with typeset pages and penned illustrations enhanced from scans of the original.