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The Father of Alternative Journalism

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September/October 1996
Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader 
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Although it was celebrated for its passionate coverage of anti-war protests and the '60s counterculture, the Voice never sounded nor looked like an underground paper. With roots in the less ideological tradition of '50s bohemianism, Wolf made sure the paper never became a movement mouthpiece: He welcomed the views of moderate, and sometimes even conservative, writers.

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Wolf left the Voice in 1974, forced out by Clay Felker, the famous editor of New York magazine, which had recently bought the paper from New York socialite and city council member Carter Burden. Wolf and Fancher sold the paper to Burden in 1970 for a handsome $3 million; Mailer was little involved with the Voice after a four-month experiment with writing a weekly column in 1956.

Dan Wolf will go down in history as a legendary editor who hardly ever changed a word of his writers' stories. Instead of picking up a pencil after the story was turned in, he held long conversations with writers before they sat down to the typewriter. 'He didn't rearrange paragraphs as much as he rearranged perceptions and assumptions,' recalls Jack Newfield, now a columnist for the New York Post. 'I thought of him as a shy and enigmatic Duke Ellington, leading a band of callow, untested soloists. . . . Dan's genius was that he was able to orchestrate our obsessions into music.'

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