Publishing Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground
For the first time ever since their original print date the magazine of the Beat Generation returns in this awe-inspiring compilation of the art, essays and photography. The avant-garde Evergreen Review is collected in this prestige 320 page hard cover in May 2025. This book presents full color reproductions of all front covers of all 100 issues of the Evergreen Review from 1957 to 1973, plus hundreds of pages from many of the issues reprinted exactly as they originally appeared!
Historian Pat Thomas interviewed 1960s era Evergreen staffers to get the inside scoop on the day-to-day operation of the magazine, plus gathered new essays looking back on this golden era by John Oakes, Loren Glass, Kasia Boddy, Dale Peck, Ethan Persoff, Ken Jordan, and Stanley Gontarski!
“Evergreen Review was a touchstone of alternative publishing during the sixties and seventies, a veritable bible of progressive politics, culture, art, cartoons and photography. It was a launchpad for opinion, commentary, journalism and literature and the old and new left. Pat Thomas has assembled an invaluable oral history and collection of the best of Evergreen from that critical era when revolutionary writers and artists challenged the status quo.”
— Steven Heller, art director of Evergreen Review (circa 1972)
From the late 1950s to the mid-70s, work by contributors like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, Jerry Rubin, Bernadette Devlin, and Germaine Greer regularly appeared in the countercultural magazine Evergreen Review. Their subversive work and radical politics defined outsider literature for an entire generation. Edited by Barney Rosset of Grove Press, Evergreen Review was a quarterly illustrated/photography driven reflection of that genre.
A brief perusal of pages reveal Just how evergreen the commentary & subject-matter and remain.
While the book will not be release until May 6, you can pre-order now.