Friday, April 18, 2014

LEST WE FORGET


Barney Rosset of the Grove Press also published the Evergreen Review as an analogue adventure between 1957-73,  presenting a host of post-war artists and writers to the reading public in an easily digestible form.  Authors as diverse as William Burroughs,  Allen Ginsburg,  Albert Camus,  LeRoi Jones, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet were given forums to express newly wrought political, social,  racial, erotic,  existential,  and artistic views. The magazine was not a kind of "gated community" of radicalism,  but a challenging immersion into First Amendment rights.

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