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Irving Rosenthal along with Paul Carroll, founded the hugely consequential, but short lived Big Table Magazine after running afoul of the University of Chicago for publishing excerpts of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch in the Chicago Review Summer 58 issue.  The first issue, published March  1959,  edited by Rosenthal, was seized by authorities for obscenity, with the decision ultimately reversed by none other than Judge Julius Hoffman who conducted the Chicago 7 trial nearly ten years later.  The benefit reading was released on Fantasy Records and is still available as Howls Raps and Roars, and Howl & Other Poems (photos courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Paul Carroll, Chicago, at the time of Big Table Magazine benefit reading, January 1959. Carroll along with Irving Rosenthal founded hugely influential, but short lived Big Table Magazine after running afoul of the University of Chicago for running excerpts of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch in the Chicago Review Summer 58 issue.  The first issue, published March  1959,  edited by Rosenthal, was seized by authorities for obscenity, with the decision ultimately reversed by none other than Judge Julius Hoffman who conducted the Chicago 7 trial nearly ten years later.  The benefit reading was released on Fantasy Records and is still available as Howls Raps and Roars, and Howl & Other Poems (photos courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

Irving Rosenthal (early publisher of Naked Lunch with Big Table/Chicago review, author of Sheeper,  and later founder of Kaliflower commune)   with Allen, Allen’s kitchen, September 17,  1989.   snapped by Sam, Irvings right hand man, with Allen’s camera. Diggers.org have just posted a long lost, wild & fascinating interview between Allen and Irving from 1971 “Interrogation of a Businessman by the Interior Police.” There’d always been tension in their friendship part stemming from Irving’s rejection of Allen’s poetry careerism,  but also a recognition on Irving’s part of of Allen’s frustratingly skin deep attraction to other men,  and that, as much as he believed Allen loved him, Allen couldn’t not get past his appearance.  Amidst Irving’s entreating Allen to give it all up and join an anonymous Commune, there’s lots of gossip (not to mention Allen casually mentioning he’d slept with Genet, a fact hitherto unknown). Link in bio or just google Kaliflower / Ginsberg. #IrvingRosenthal #kaliflower #sheeper #diggers #SanFrancisco #AllenGinsberg #nakedlunch #williamsburroughs #poetry #poetrycommunity #queer #gay #chicagoreview #bigtable #beatgeneration #writers #commune (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQhZg4BMRQ/?igshid=2h9sqg5olui8

Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Paul Carroll, Chicago, at the time of Big Table Magazine benefit reading, January 1959. // Allen Ginsberg Irving Rosenthal, Peter Orlovsky, Chicago 1959. Carroll along with Irving Rosenthal founded hugely influential, but short lived Big Table Magazine after running afoul of the University of Chicago for running excerpts of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch in the Chicago Review Summer 58 issue. The first issue, published March 1959, edited by Rosenthal, as was seized by authorities for obscenity, with the decision ultimately reversed by none other than Judge Julius Hoffman who conducted the Chicago 8 trial nearly ten years later. The benefit reading was released on Fantasy Records and is still available as Howls Raps and Roars, and Howl & Other Poems (photos courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) • #nakedlunch #chicagoreview #chicago #irvingrosenthal #bigtable #williamsburrouhgs #jackkerouac #oldangelmidnight #williamsburroughs #allenginsberg #gregorycorso #peterorlovsky (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-j6GZvBVMj/?igshid=11lv7jz7i0vjc

Our Executive Director, Elizabeth Metzger Sampson, joins Maryrose Carroll in conversation about Chicago's literary history, censorship controversy, and the Beat poets. #beatpoets #chicago #chicagoreview #censorship #poetry #chicagopoetry #poetrycenter (at Chicago Cultural Center)

Our Executive Director, Elizabeth Metzger Sampson, joins Maryrose Carroll in conversation about Chicago's literary history, censorship controversy, and the Beat poets. #beatpoets #chicago #chicagoreview #censorship #poetry #chicagopoetry #poetrycenter (at Chicago Cultural Center)

The first issue of Big Table from 1959, which published work from Beat writers censored by the Chicago Review. In this issue: #Kerouac, #Dahlberg, and #Burroughs #BigTable #Chicago #chicagoreview #poetry #writing #poetrycenter #chicagopoetry (at Poetry Center of Chicago)