SLSL Intro "The Evergreen Review"

[Dave Monroe]

"In 1956, in Norfolk, Virginia, I had wandered into a
bookstore and discovered issue one of the Evergreen
Review, then an early forum for Beat sensibility.  It
was an eye-opener.[...]  By the time I got back to
college, I found academic people deeply alarmed over
the cover of the Evergreen Review then current, not to
mention what was inside." (SL, "Intro," p. 8)

Cf. ...

"Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black
levis, suede jacket, and big cowboy hat, happend to
pass through Norfolk, Virginia...." (V., Ch. 1, p. 1)

Then from Christmas Eve to ...

The Evergreen Review

http://www.evergreenreview.com/

http://www.evergreenreview.com/105/archives.htm

"issue one"

http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/one.html

"then an early forum for Beat sensibility"

http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/two.html

"By the time I got back to college"

Fall 1953  Pynchon enters Cornell in the division of
Engineering Physics 

1955  Pynchon enters the Navy 

1957  Pynchon returns to Cornell, transfers to the
College of Arts and Sciences

http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/pynchonbio.html

"I found academic people deeply alarmed over the cover
of the Evergreen Review then current, not to mention
what was inside"

http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/three.html

http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/four.html

http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/five.html

Guessing Vol. 1, No. 4 here.  And see not only ...

http://www.evergreenreview.com/105/evrev_on_cd/con105_oncd_cover.html

But also ...

Rosset, Barney, ed.  The Evergreen Review Reader,
   1967–1973.  NY: FourWallsEightWindows, 2002.

http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com/bookrosset1.html

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