Comments on: Evergreen Review Archive

By: jed

jed — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:00:02 +0000

I just met Barney Rosset at the Burroughs conference at Columbia. An incredible man and as you point out RMG an incredible magazine. There is a commericalism and sensationalism to the later Evergreens that grates on me. For every example you gave, there is a “provocative” photo spread or cover image or a piece of exploitative sex or violence that supposedly pushes the envelope that seems to me to undercut it. That said, you are right, Evergreen, and even more so Grove Press, is in many respects “damned genius.”

By: RMG Kinko

RMG Kinko — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:47:34 +0000

Were it not for Evergreen Review, Che Guevara’s Bolivian campaign and ultimate murder would never have been properly chronicled in the US, the poems of so many would never have been read by young people (such as myself) of that time, Phoebe Zeitgeist never would have morphed into Little Annie Fanny for the mainstream, German expressionists such as George Grosz never would have entered the consciousness of so many, and that nexus where art collided with politics would never have had a center in this country.
Other than that, it was a damned genius magazine.

By: BIGCRUX

BIGCRUX — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:17:39 +0000

I remember buying a huge stack of Evergreens for .50 a piece at a little used bookstore in Winchester, VA. Ah, those were the days.

By: Andrew Walker

Andrew Walker — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:12:42 +0000

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Greetings from London town.
Evergreen No. 97 (volume 17) was published in 1973, is in newspaper format and looks like a poor relation of the very early Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine with all b & w printing. It’s a Special Closeup wholly devoted to the film Last Tango in Paris. No WSB! Articles by Norman Mailer, Alberto Moravia, Nat Hentoff, Parker Tyler, Dotson Rader, Iris Owens, Fernando Arrabal et al, interview with Bertolucci, stills from film. 32 pages, 16 inches x 11 1/2 inches and folded. Editor Barney Rosett/ Special editor Kent Carroll. As with issue no. 96, published quarterly by Evergreen Review Inc. East 11th Street New York, NY 10003 $1.50 per copy, $5.00 four issues, $9.00 eight issues. [Some hope, Buster.]
I’m pretty certain there was no Evergreen no. 99.
The Grove Press Number of The Review of Contemporary Literature Fall 1990 Vol X, No. 3 and The Art of Publishing II Barney Rosett interview by Ken Jordan in Paris Review Winter 1997-98 Number 145 have further insights into Evergreen’s history.
Keep it coming, Jed.
Best Wishes,
Andrew