Description: Vintage back issue of Evergreen Review, Vol. 5, No. 16, January/February, 1961Paul Goodman: Why Are There No Alternatives?William S. Burroughs: NAKED LUNCH (excerpt) Alfred Andersch: The Night of the GiraffeRobert Duncan: ApprehensionsGregory Corso: Berlin ImpressionsJohn Williamson: AughataneShelagh Delaney: Tom RileyHerbert W. Stanford III: Erecting a Sacrilegious CrossC. Wright Mills: On Latin America, the Left, and the U.S. Cover: George Grosz 110 pages. B/W. Magazine is in very good condition for age. Light age/wear to cover/spine crease. Interior pages very good with toning to page edges. Check out my other listings. Shipping and handling is domestic only; international is available only via eBay Global Shipping. Evergreen Review is a U.S.-based literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press. It existed in print from 1957 through 1973, and was re-launched online in 1998. Its diversity can be seen in the March-April 1960 issue, which included work by Albert Camus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bertolt Brecht and LeRoi Jones, as well as Edward Albee's first play, The Zoo Story. The Camus piece was a reprint of "Reflections on the Guillotine," first published in English in the Review in 1957 and reprinted on this occasion as the magazine's "contribution to the worldwide debate on the problem of capital punishment and, more specifically, the case of Caryl Whittier Chessman." Writers: Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburo Oe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine. Evergreen published writing that was literally counter to the culture, and if it was sexy, so much the better. In the context of the time, sex was politics, and the powers-that-be made the suppression of sexuality a political issue. The court battles that Grove Press fought for the legal publication of Lady Chatterly's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and for the legal distribution of the film I Am Curious: Yellow, spilled onto the pages of Evergreen Review, and in 1964, an issue of Evergreen itself was confiscated in New York State by the Nassau County District Attorney on obscenity charges... All of this was done on a shoestring budget by a tiny staff. Barney Rosset started the magazine with Editor Don Allen and Fred Jordan, who was nominally the business manager in its early days. Richard Seaver joined the editorial team with the ninth issue, and Don Allen stepped back to become a contributing editor. Publication increased from quarterly to bimonthly to, in the late sixties, monthly, and the format changed from trade paperback to a full-sized, glossy magazine attaining a subscription base of some 40,000 copies and a newsstand circulation of 100,000. The final issue, number 96, came out in 1973. (from Wikipedia)
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Location: New York, New York
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Publication Frequency: Monthly
Publication Name: Evergreen
Topic: counterculture
Language: English
Publication Month: January
Publication Year: 1961
