Evergreen Review

[jbor at bigpond.com]

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

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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
>