Van Meter, a white man, was to oversee a magazine primarily about Black music and culture.
[8] Rogin also consulted and directed for Miller Publishing, which owned Blaze, a spinoff of Vibe, and Tennis, among other titles.
[9] Rogin published many stories in The New Yorker, mostly in the 1960s, but was allegedly barred after the rejection of a couple of submissions.
[12] In a review of The Fencing Master, the Oakland Tribune opined that "on a few occasions, the prose begins to take too much delight in itself, but a great deal of the book remains an intriguing adventure in tone.
"[14] Time wrote that "Rogin shares [John] Cheever's awareness of risk, his sense that to turn a corner of the banal may be to find oneself in a howling waste of strangeness.