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100 1 $aRosset, Barney,$eauthor.
245 10 $aRosset :$bmy life in publishing and how I fought censorship /$cby Barney Rosset.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOR Books, in partnership with Counterpoint Press,$c[2016]
264 2 $a[Berkeley, CA] :$bDistributed to the trade by Publishers Group West
264 4 $c©2016
300 $a331 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aRare Book copy: In original dust jacket.$5NNC
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index.
505 0 $aAn Irish ancestry: From ould sod to the new land -- Progressive educations: Experimental schools and falling in love -- Off to college, off to war -- China: The forgotten theater -- "The liberators": Shanghai and the return home -- Joan Mitchell: The beginning -- Partings and beginnings: Joan, the Hamptons, and early Grove -- Samuel Beckett -- Grove Theater: Harold Pinter and other playwrights -- Into the fray: Lady Chatterley's lover -- A return to film: Film, I Am Curious (Yellow) and other celluloid adventures -- Profiles in censorship: Henry Miller and Tropic of Cancer -- Maurice Girodias -- The Beats and Naked Lunch -- Revolutionaries: Evergreen, Che Guevara, and the Grove bombing -- Attack from within, attack from without -- My Tom Sawyer: Kenzaburō Ōe -- Eleuthéria -- A nightmare in the Stone Forest.
520 $aGenet... Beckett... Burroughs... Miller... Ionesco, Oe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr. and John Rechy. 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 and The Tropic of Cancer. 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 way -- he 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, literature -- and 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.
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