In addition to his editor's column, Nowicki also wrote occasional reviews.
The San Francisco Review received little funding and had no backers, so it relied for financial support on a combination of advertising revenues, subscriptions, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and volunteers.
Despite the limited funding, the Review was published regularly under Nowicki's editorship until the late 1980s.
When it was sold in 1989, Nowicki was retained as editor for a year until a successor was installed.
Nowicki's articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The North American Review and other publications.