Evergreen Review Magazine Lot (1969) — Barney Rosset, Grove Press Counterculture Issues

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Launched as the house magazine of Grove Press, Evergreen Review became one of the defining literary and political journals of the 1960s counterculture. These late-1969 issues capture the magazine at peak cultural velocity, featuring contributors such as Donald Newlove, Nat Hentoff, Seymour Krim, Dotson Rader, Julius Lester, Jean Genet, Ed Dorn, Lance Sterling, Harold Pinter, and Kishin Shinoyama. Across fiction, reportage, photography, and cultural criticism, Evergreen functioned as a living archive of the era’s radical literary energy.

At the center of it all was Barney Rosset, the publisher who reshaped American letters. Through Grove Press and Evergreen Review, Rosset brought censored and controversial voices into mainstream circulation—Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Jean Genet—while fighting landmark obscenity battles that permanently altered U.S. publishing. Evergreen was his public laboratory: a place where literature, politics, art, and provocation collided.

If you’re not familiar with Evergreen Review, here’s a great place to start. If you are, then you know lots in this condition don’t come around often.