Evergreen Review
jbor at bigpond.com
jbor at bigpond.com
Mon Sep 19 12:53:05 CDT 2005
More from the _Slow Learner_ 'Intro' (p. 8):
"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. [...]"
http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/one.html
"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. [...]"
http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/five.html
(I'm assuming it's this issue Pynchon is referring to, but you can
check other issues by typing in the numbers into the address line.)
http://www.evergreenreview.com/100/history.html
best
On 19/09/2005 jbor wrote:
> "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.)
>
> http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column39c.html
>
> best
>
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