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My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship

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An edition of Rosset (2016)

Rosset

My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship

Genet, Beckett,Burroughs, Henry Miller, Ionesco, Oe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr, John Rechy and the Marquis de Sade. The legendary film I Am Curious (Yellow). The books that assaulted the fort of propriety that was the United States in the 1950s and 60s, Lady Chatterley s Lover, The Tropic of Cancer, My Secret Life. The Evergreen Review. Victorian erotica. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. A bombing, a sit-in, and a near-fistfight with Norman Mailer. The common thread between these disparate elements, a number of which reshaped modern culture, was Barney Rosset.
Rosset was the antidote to the trope of the gentleman publisher personified by other pioneering figures of the industry such as Alfred A. Knopf, Bennett Cerf and James Laughlin. If Barney saw a crowd heading one wayhe looked the other. If he knew something was forbidden, he regarded it as a plus. Unsurprisingly, financial ruin, along with the highs and lows of critical reception, marked his career. But his unswerving dedication to publishing what he wanted made him one of the most influential publishers ever.
Rosset began work on his autobiography a decade before his death in 2012, and several publishers and a number of editors worked with him on the project. Now, at last, in his own words, we have a portrait of the man who reshaped how we think about language, literatureand sex. 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; his romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more.
At times appalling, more often inspiring, never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored.

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OR Books
Language
English
Pages
331

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New York & London

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Library of Congress
Z473.R74 A3 2016, Z473.R74 A3 2016eb

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Format
Hardback
Number of pages
331

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Open Library
OL26237370M
Internet Archive
rossetmylifeinpu0000ross
ISBN 13
9781944869045
OCLC/WorldCat
967513537, 967392230

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