Evergreen Review, Volume 6, Number 22, January-February 1962

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Burroughs contributes “Introduction to Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Novia Express” and “Episodes from Novia Express”.

This also contains "The Cannibal Feast" by E. S. Sheldon, a review of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.

Note: Novia Express was an early title for what became Nova Express.

Published in New York City by Evergreen Review/Grove Press in January, 1962.

This copy was acquired from The Book House in Dinkytown (Minneapolis, MN.).

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C39
• Shoaf III.31
• Schottlaender v4.C39
• Raven 19620100EREV.6.22, b10

Selected Contents:

• Samuel Beckett: "The Expelled" (prose, translated by Richard Seaver)
• Pablo Neruda:
• "Pastoral" (poetry, translated by Ben Belitt)
• "A Pinecone, A Toy Sheep..." (memoir, translated by Ben Belitt)
• "Gentleman Alone" (poetry, translated by Ben Belitt)
• "Stationary Point" (poetry, translated by Ben Belitt)
• Mack Sheldon Thomas: "Folksong" (prose)
• Gregory Corso: "Of One Month's Reading of English Newspapers" (poetry)
• Paula Horn: "London Portfolio" (photographs)
• Evgeny Evtushenko: "Babii Yar" (poetry, translated by George Reavey)
• (Barney Rosset): "Note on 'Babii Yar" (essay)
• André Pieyre de Mandiargues: "The Diamond" (prose, translated by Richard Howard)
• Horace Gregory: "Medusa in Gramercy Park" (poetry)
• Al Sens: "The Ladder of Success" (comic)
• Anselm Hollo: "Lament of the 12th of July 1961" (poetry)
• Ricardo Garibay: "German Drinking Beer" (prose)
• William Burroughs:
• "Introduction to Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Novia Express" (essay/prose)
• "Episodes from Novia Express" (prose)
• Martin Williams: "Jazz: The LP Catalogue – 7, Sonny Rollins: Spontaneous Orchestration" (review)
• Francis Wolff: photograph

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Barney Rosset
• Managing Editor: Fred Jordan
• Associate Editors: Richard Seaver, Marilynn Meeker
• Contributing Editors: Walter Höllerer, Jerry Tallmer, Martin Williams
• Business: Beverly Reice
• Design: Richard Brodney
• Circulation: John Pizey