Rosset : my life in publishing and how I fought censorship / by Barney Rosset.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosset, Barney, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rosset, Barney.

Grove Press--History.

Grove Press.

Rosset, Barney--Correspondence.

Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

Theater--Production and direction.

History.

United States.

Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.

Theater--Production and direction--Sources.

Theater.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Sources.

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

331 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Distribution:

[Berkeley, CA] : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West.

Place of Publication:

New York : OR Books, in partnership with Counterpoint Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer's 'Maidstone' and Samual 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"--Front jacket flap.

Contents:

1 An Irish Ancestry: From Ould Sod to the New Land 13

2 Progressive Educations: Experimental Schools and Falling in Love 25

3 Off to College, Off to War 33

4 China: The Forgotten Theater 49

5 "The Liberators": Shanghai and the Return Home 63

6 Joan Mitchell: The Beginning 77

7 Partings and Beginnings: Joan, the Hamptons, and Early Grove 85

8 Samuel Beckett 109

9 Grove Theater: Harold Pinter and Other Playwrights 141

10 Into the Fray: Lady Chatterley's Lover 147

11 A Return to Film: Film, I Am Curious (Yellow) and Other Celluloid Adventures 167

12 Profiles in Censorship: Henry Miller and Tropic of Cancer 179

13 Maurice Girodias 207

14 The Beats and Naked Lunch 219

15 Revolutionaries: Evergreen, Che Guevara, and the Grove Bombing 239

16 Attack from Within, Attack from Without 249

17 My Tom Sawyer: Kenzaburo Oe 267

18 Eleuthéria 281

19 A Nightmare in the Stone Forest 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781944869045

1944869042

OCLC:

967392230