A PORTRAIT OF THE MAN WHO RESHAPED A GENERATION
Photo © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah.
“Barney Rosset to me represents the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century. ... No amount of words will be adequate to express my gratitude to Barney Rosset.”
—Kenzaburō Ōe
“Barney Rosset was not an anonymous publisher for me. When I speak about my publisher in New York I never say 'Grove Press,' I always say 'Barney Rosset.'”
—Jean Genet
The heart of the counterculture that transformed America in the 1960s and 1970s, that opposed the Vietnam War, embraced the civil rights movement and spurned censorship of any kind, lay in Grove Press. And the force behind Grove was a diminutive, restless rebel named Barney Rosset.
Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer’s Maidstone and Samuel Beckett’s Film; the battles with the US government over Tropic of Cancer and much else; the search for Che’s diaries; the development of the legendary Evergreen Review; Rosset’s romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more.
At times appalling, more often inspiring; never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored.
Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer’s Maidstone and Samuel Beckett’s Film; the battles with the US government over Tropic of Cancer and much else; the search for Che’s diaries; the development of the legendary Evergreen Review; Rosset’s romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more.
At times appalling, more often inspiring; never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored.
ROSSET
My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship
by Barney Rosset
Photo credits: top left, photo by Allen Ginsberg, ©2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC; middle left, photo by Fred W. McDarrah; lower left, photo by Barney Rosset; middle and lower right, photos by Astrid Myers Rosset.
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