- Evergreen Review
"Evergreen Review" was a literary magazine founded by
Barney Rosset , publisher ofGrove Press in the late 1950s and 1960s. Itseclecticism can be seen in the March-April 1960 issue, which included work byAlbert Camus ,Lawrence Ferlinghetti ,Bertolt Brecht andLeRoi Jones , as well asEdward 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 world-wide debate on the problem ofcapital 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 Burroughs ,Marguerite Duras ,Jean Genet ,Allen Ginsberg ,Gunter 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 andMalcolm X . United States Supreme Court JusticeWilliam O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine.Illustrators
Although primarily a literary magazine, "Evergreen Review" always contained numerous illustrations. In its early years, these included a small number of
cartoon s. By the mid-1960s, many illustrations and photographs were of an erotic — arguably pornographic — nature. The magazine also ran the comics feature "The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist " by writerMichael O'Donoghue and artistFrank Springer .Online
The original "Evergreen Review" folded in 1973, but the magazine was revived in 1998 in an online edition edited by founder Barney Rosset and Astrid Meyer. The online edition features flashbacks to classic editions, as well as debuts by contemporary dissident poets such as
Dennis Nurkse ,Giannina Braschi and Regina Dereiva.ee also
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New World Writing
*Moody Street Irregulars External links
* [http://evergreenreviewblog.blogspot.com/ Barney Rosset's blog, "News from Evergreen Review"]
* [http://www.evergreenreview.com Evergreen Review] (online edition)
* [http://evergreenreview.com/store_ebooks.htm Index to early issues]
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