Evergreen Review

[jbor at bigpond.com]

See also

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156201045X/103-8243908 
-7055805

Rosset, Barney (ed.) _The Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966: A Ten Year  
Anthology_, Blue Moon Books, New York, 1993.

best

On 20/09/2005 jbor wrote:

> 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
>
> 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
>>
>