Rosset

My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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GenetBeckettBurroughsMillerIonesco, 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 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.Illustrated with black-and-white photographs; includes index

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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-01
Mått139 x 209 x 27 mm
Vikt434 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagOR Books
ISBN9781944869533

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Table of ContentsFOREWORD1: An Irish Ancestry: From Ould Sod to the New Land2: Progressive Educations: Experimental Schools and Falling in Love3: Off to College, Off to War4: China: The Forgotten Theater5: "The Liberators": Shanghai and the Return Home6: Jon Mitchell: The Beginning7: Partings and Beginnings: Joan, the Hamptons, and Early Grove8: Samuel Beckett9: Grove Theater: Harold Pinter and Other Playwrights10: Into the Fray: Lady Chatterley's Lover11: A Return to Film: Film, I Am Curious (Yellow) and Other Celluloid Adventures12: Profiles in Censorship: Henry Miller and Tropic of Cancer13: Maurice Girodias14: The Beats and Naked Lunch15: Revolutionaries: Evergreen, Che Guevara, and the Grove Bombing16: Attack from Within, Attack from Without17: My Tom Sawyer: Kenzaburō Ōe18: Eleuthéria19: A Nightmare in the Stone ForestEND NOTESACKNOWLEDGMENTSAPPENDICESINDEX

Praise for Rosset"Vivid and informative—a must for anyone interested in 20th-century American publishing and culture." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A candid self-portrait...a colorful and rollicking history." —Publishers Weekly"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"Barney Rosset, whose guts and wisdom made it possible for me to read Beckett and all the other writers published by Grove, the one-in-a-million Barney Rosset, America's bravest publisher." —Paul Auster