Anthony Linick

Anthony Linick (born January 6, 1938) is an American educator and author.

Early years

Linick was born in Los Angeles on January 6, 1938. His father, Leroy M. Linick, a screen story analyst at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his mother, née Etta Gordon, separated soon thereafter. Linick grew up in the household of his mother and her new husband, the composer and conductor Ingolf Dahl. Linick attended a number of public schools in Los Angeles, including Alexander Hamilton High School, and in 1955 he began a ten-year experience on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Westwood. In 1959 he received his B.A. in history and the following year he earned a general secondary teaching credential. In 1964 he completed a Ph.D. in history. He spent a final year in Los Angeles as an instructor in the UCLA history department.

Editorship of Nomad

While an undergraduate Linick launched an American "little magazine", Nomad, working with his co-editor, Donald Factor (the son of Max Factor, Jr.), on a number of issues, including the 1962 finale, Nomad/New York. Linick had enjoyed a great interest in the burgeoning poetry scene for a number of years.

Because of Nomad and his connections to avant garde poetry, Linick was present during the 1957 Howl trial in San Francisco. During summers spent in New York he also got to know many of the authors who dominated the anthologies in subsequent years. Knowing of his interest in such affairs, his mentor at UCLA, George Mowry, suggested he choose a dissertation topic from this world. In 2017 Linick published in Beat Scene magazine some of the original research for this dissertation, including responses to a questionnaire returned to him by Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Charles Bukovsky. The event was of particular interest to Beat scholar James Campbell, who wrote about Linick's article in The Times Literary Supplement.

Academic life In 1964 Linick married Dorothy Goldstone, another recent B.A. in history at UCLA, and the following year they moved to East Lansing, Michigan, where Linick had accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Michigan State University (MSU). Linick was also able to offer assistance to the musicologist Dorothy L. Crawford in her two books on the Los Angeles musical world.

A second passion, one that traces back to the inspiration offered by Dahl to the young Linick and his school friends, was for the footpath. As early as 1974 Linick began a long series of walks on the extensive network of paths in England, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Here too he kept a detailed daily journal and these served as the source for A Walker's Alphabet: Adventures on the Long-distance footpaths of Great Britain (2010).

After publishing four volumes in the Paddington Rec cycle, Linick decided in 2013 to offer subsequent editions on his own web site. He also posted entries and photographs there covering the almost 5000 miles of walks he has completed in Britain and Ireland.

Interests He lives in London and maintains his walking and park journals. He is a member of the South West Way and the Offa's Dyke Path Associations, the Rambler's Association, the Long Distance Walkers Association, and the National Trust, and he is a supporter of the Dogs Trust and a friend of both the Royal Academy and the Tate Gallery.

Editorial work and articles Co-editor (with Donald Factor), Nomad, Numbers 1 through 10/11 (1959-1962) Editor, Nomad/New York, an anthology of the New York avant-garde poets (London: Villiers Publications, 1962) “Principles of a Humanities Orientation to Literary Instruction,” The Humanities Journal, Vol. III, No. 4 (Spring, 1970) “Magic and Identity in Television Programming,” Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. III, No. 4 (Spring, 1970). First published online in 2004. “Britannia Rules The Airwaves: Television Programming in Transatlantic Perspective,” Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. VIII, No. 4 (Spring, 1974). First published online in 2004. "Interview with the avant-garde", Beat Scene (Winter 2017), #88, pp. 11–25. Co-author, “The American Issues Forum, A Rural Perspective” (Washington, D.C., The National Grange, 1975). “Strong Opinions: the Modern British Guidebook,” Landscape, Vol. 23, No, 2 (1979). “The Music of Ingolf Dahl,” liner notes for Defining Dahl, The music of Ingolf Dahl, Decca Record Company, 1995. “Power, Glory and the King James Bible,” Accents, The Magazine of the American School in London, Fall, 2005 “The Dogs of Paddington Rec,” London Dog Tails, March/April 2008. "Interview with the avant-garde", Beat Scene (Winter 2017), #88, pp. 11–25. "The long road north", Beat Scene (Spring 2018), #89, pp. 29–30. "Dennis Hopper – Poet", Beat Scene (Spring 2021), #100, pp. 10–13. "A Nomad in New York." Beat Scene(Late Summer 2022), #105, pp. 35–39.

Books The Lives of Ingolf Dahl (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2008) (hc); (sc) A Walker’s Alphabet: Adventures on the long-distance footpaths of Great Britain (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2010) (sc)

The dogs of Paddington Rec series Strictly Come Barking (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2008) (sc); (hc) Have I Got Dogs For You! (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2010) (sc) DSI: Dog Scene Investigation (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2011) (sc); (ebk) A Doggy Day in London Town (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2012) (sc); (e)