"Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Evergreen Review Covers & Essays, 1957-1973" (2025)

Seattle, Washington, US: Fantagraphics Books (book, compilation), 2025.
12.25" x 9.25" x 1.125", 353 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 979-8-8750-0067-6.

Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Evergreen Review Covers & Essays, 1957-1973, edited by Pat Thomas and published in a hardcover edition by Fantagraphics Books (Gary Groth, Seattle, Washington, US) in 2025. Designed by Darryl Norsen. Scanning by Kevin Uehlein. Interviews transcribed by Katie Westhoff. Copy editing by Jon Klages, Mitch Meyers, Kari Pearson, and Ken Jordan. Associate publisher is Eric Reynolds.

This book consists of reproductions of all of the front covers of Evergreen Review between 1957 and 1973, as well as a number of reproduced pages and items from the issues. Also included are a number of contemporary interviews and essays. 

A reproduction of “Journey Through Time-Space”, an interview of William S. Burroughs by Daniel Odier, from issue 67, is at pages 196-211.

“The Boston Trial of ‘Naked Lunch’, from issue 36, is reproduced at pages 58-68.

There are also a number of Burroughs-mentioning cover and advertisements throughout.

In addition, reproductions of "Cut-Ups by Brion Gysin: A Project for Disastrous Success” is reproduced from issue 32, at pages 46-49. This is followed by “Cut-Ups Self-Explained” (from the same issue) at pages 50-51.

This specific copy – which is signed and dated by the editor and compiler Pat Thomas – was acquired from Elliott Bay Bookstore (Seattle, Washington, US).

Selected Contents:

• Fred Jordan: subscriber letter
• Pat Thomas: "The Golden Age of Reading and Thinking" (essay)
• John Oakes: "Committed to the Alternative: Evergreen in Context, 1957 to the Present" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 1-14
• Kasia Boddy: "Evergreen from the Outside in" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 15-27
• Pat Thomas and Nat Sobel: "Nat Sobel Talks to Pat Thomas" (interview)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 28-32
• Brion Gysin: "Cut-Ups by Brion Gysin: A Project for Disastrous Success" (essay)
• Brion Gysin: "Cut-Ups Self-Explained" (cut-up prose)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 33
• Judith Malina: "Last Performance at the Living Theatre Invective" (poetry)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 34-36
• Edward De Grazia, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, et al: "The Boston Trial of 'Naked Lunch'" (transcript)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 37-39
• Loren Glass: "The Evergreen Review from Avant-Garde to Counterculture" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 40
• Sandra Hochman: "A History of the Opera" (poetry)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 41
• Martin Williams: "The Jazz Avant Garde: Who's in Charge Here?" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 42-43
• Ho Chi Minh: "Prison Poems" (poetry)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 44-49
• Pat Thomas and Ken Jordan: "The Evergreen Review History: Ken Jordan Interview" (interview)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 50
• Jack Newfield: "Chicago, Honkies, and Camus" (essay)
• Saul Gottlieb and LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka]: "'They Think You're an Airplane and You're Really a Bird!': An Interview with LeRoi Jones after the Newark Riots" (interview)
• Michael Rumaker: "Carson McCullers 2/19/17 – 9/29/67" (poetry)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 51-54
• Julian Beck: "Notes from the Underground: Theater and Revolution" (essay)
• Stefan S. Brecht: "Sun Ra" (review)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 55
• Michael Reck: "A Conversation between Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg" (essay/interview)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 56
• Timothy Leary: "The Magical Mystery Trip" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 57
• Paul Spike and Mark Rudd: "'We Don't Want to Be Educated for the CIA!': An Interview with Mark Rudd" (interview)
• Martin Steingesser: "Watch Out" (poetry)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 58-59
• Cecil M. Brown and Eldridge Cleaver: "The Minister of Information Raps: An Interview with Eldridge Cleaver" (interview)
• Jon Surgal: "High yellow put-down minuet" (poetry)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 60
• Luis J. Gonzalez and Gustavo A. Sánchez Salazar: "The Story of Tania: Che's Woman in Bolivia" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 61
• Paul Williams: "How Rock Communicates" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 62-64
• Pat Thomas and Claudia Menza: "A Conversation with Claudia Menza" (interview)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 65-66
• Jerry Rubin: "A Yippie Manifesto" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 67
• Daniel Odier and William S. Burroughs: "Journey Through Time-Space: An Interview with William S. Burroughs" (interview)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 68-72
• L. M. Kit Carson and Dennis Hopper: "Easy Rider: A Very American Thing" (interview)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 73
• Abbie Hoffman: "Thorns of the Flower Children" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 74
• Nat Henloff: "Captain America's Restaurant" (essay)
• Gunnar Harding: "Allen Ginsberg Meets the Swedish Cyclist" (essay/interview)
• Pat Thomas and Stanley Gontarski: "Stanley Gontarski Informs Pat Thomas" (interview)
• David Amram: "In Memory of Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 75-79
• Bobby Seale: "The Double Standard of Justice" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 80
• Ethan Persoff: "Barney Rosset's Evergreen Review Online 1998-2012" (essay)
• n.p.: letter to Maurice Girodias
• Allen Ginsberg: "Memory Gardens" (poetry)
• John Clellon Holmes: "From One Smartass to Another" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 81
• L. M. Kit Carson: "Have You Seen It All, Dennis Hopper?" (essay)
• Kay Boyle: "No One Can Be All Things to All People" (essay)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 82
• Michèle Manceaux and Jean Genet: "Jean Genet and the Black Panthers" (interview)
• Julius Lester: "Woman – The Male Fantasy" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 83-87
• Seymour Krim: "Notes from the Underground: Fonda, My Buddy" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 88-91
• Claudia Dreifus and Bernadette Devlin: "St. Joan of the Bogside: An Interview with Bernadette Devlin" (interview)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 92
• John Forbes Kerry: "Words of a Winter Soldier" (essay)
• Nguyen Phuc Dao Duc: "A Remembrance for You" (poetry)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 93
• Claudia Dreifus and Germaine Greer: "Freeing Women's Sexuality: An Interview with Germaine Greer" (interview)
• David Kherdian: "poem" (poetry)
• Cover of Evergreen Review, issue 94
• Dotson Rader: "This Is the End, My Friend" (essay)
• Covers of Evergreen Review, issues 95-98
• Dale Peck: "Apophasis" (essay)
• Biographies
• Acknowledgments