Also included were an interview with Fidel Castro and a portfolio of photographs of contemporary Cuba. (Three editors of the geographically distant Northwest Review at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, were to face this same issue later, when their publication was suspended by the university after the publication of eight poems by Philip Whalen and work by Antonin Artaud in its Fall 1963 issue. Like Evergreen Review, Big Table was crucial in bringing the underground to those of us waiting in the wings in small-town America. The aura, even the glamour, of censorship helped to increase its distribution, and its audience consequently grew significantly. Judge Hoffman followed Judge Woolsey’s decision regarding Joyce’s Ulysses, and Big Table continued publishing through five issues. Hoffman, who later presided over the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. The ACLU challenged the Post Office in a hearing presided over by Judge Julius S. The first issue, which featured Kerouac, Dahlberg, and Burroughs, was impounded by the US Post Office. With the suppressed material they founded Big Table (so named by Jack Kerouac in a telegram: “CALL IT BIG TABLE”). As they prepared the Winter issue, the Chicago Daily News published an article entitled “Filthy Writing on the Midway” as a consequence, that issue was suppressed by a cowardly administration, galvanizing and energizing the literary underground.Ĭarroll and Rosenthal, along with a half dozen other editors, resigned from The Chicago Review. Editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll gathered and published more such “Beat” material in the Autumn 1958 issue. Burroughs, as well as work by Duncan, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, McClure, and others. This included a chapter from the then-unpublished Naked Lunch by the notorious William S. The literary climate in the Midwest began to heat up in 1958 when The Chicago Review, as its Spring number, presented an issue devoted to the San Francisco Renaissance. Other Places (Chicago, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Beyond) Chicago

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