The Chicago Review, Big Table and Naked Lunch

[jbor at bigpond.com]

"At the same time, there had been a shakeup at the _Chicago Review_, 
which resulted in the Beat-oriented _Big Table_ magazine. 'What 
happened at Chicago' became shorthand for some unimaginable subversive 
threat. [...]" (Pynchon, speaking of some of his formative influences 
in the _Slow Learner_ 'Intro', p. 7.)

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