Evergreen Review Vol 13 No 69

by Barney Rosset (Editor)

The 69th issue of Grove Press' journal of literature, art, culture, and politics.

80 pages, Journal

First published August 1, 1969

About the author

Barney Rosset was born in 1922 in Chicago to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. He was briefly married to the Abstract Expressionist American painter Joan Mitchell. He bought Grove Press in 1951, and sold it to the Getty family in 1985. He died in 2012.

Reviews

[Bill Wallace]

This issue is a few pages shorter and has a cover more suited to Penthouse. Inside we get a Woody Allen piece that reads like a sketch for his film Bananas, an amusing, ripping letter to Pope Paul VI about the pill by erotica "author" Emmanuelle Arsan, Nat Hentoff despairing over the undemocratic nature of Congress, John Lahr on black theater, a review of the film Warrendale, Frank Fleet, and a couple of plays from Oh! Calcutta! On the whole, the issue is weaker than most of the ones preceding it but still a fair chronicle of its time.