Big Table records, 1958-1960.

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Big Table records, 1958-1960.

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Correspondence, primarily that of Albert N. Podell, business manager, pertaining to the finances and advertising of the literary quarterly BIG TABLE, and to the publication of Beat and other modernist writing; also papers pertaining to an obscenity suit brought against the periodical. Major correspondents include Irving Rosenthal and Griselda Ohannessian.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Rosenthal, Irving, 1930-....

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Irving Rosenthal edited THE CHICAGO REVIEW in the late 1950s. He succeeded in publishing poetry by Jack Kerouac, prose from Edward Dahlberg, and the first parts of William Burroughs' NAKED LUNCH before the University of Chicago censored his editorial practice. Rosenthal and a colleague then started their own magazine, BIG TABLE, which survived only briefly. Its few issues did, however, connect Rosenthal both to the Dahlberg circle and with the Beats. His move to New York in the late 1950s led to...

Big Table, Inc.

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Big Table was a literary periodical publishing and promoting progressive modernist and Beat prose and poetry, and was the subject of a 1960 obscenity suit. From the description of Big Table records, 1958-1960. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63988280 ...

Ohannessian, Griselda Jackson, 1927-

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Griselda Ohannessian is a daughter of Schuyler B. Jackson's, husband of Laura (Riding) Jackson. Laura (Riding) Jackson was a poet, critic, and author best known for her association with the Fugitives in the Thirties, for her literary partnership with Robert Graves, and as the editor of Epilogue. From the description of Griselda Ohannessian collection of Laura (Riding) Jackson letters, 1935-1982. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63890473 ...

Podell, Albert

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Cornell University Class of 1958. From the description of Albert Podell papers, 1954-1960. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 299028843 ...