Grove Press

...Americans to embrace the counterculture. Grove Press published Beat Generation writers, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hubert Selby, Jr. and Jack Kerouac. Rosset also purchased the American...

In this article: Samuel Beckett, Evergreen Review, Henry Miller, Waiting for Godot, New School, Joan Mitchell, and William S. Burroughs

...Foundation. Rosset, who is now 86, took over the defunct Grove Press in 1951 and went on to publish Henry Miller, DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, William Burroughs, and Jean Genet, fighting and winning many a legal battle. His books...

In this article: Terence Blacker, Bird of prey, Noreen Hay, Hen Harrier, God, Carry On film, and National Book Foundation

The Ticket That Exploded The Ticket That Exploded is a novel by William S. Burroughs first published in 1962 by Olympia Press and later published in the United States by Grove Press in 1967. It is the second installment in a trilogy of books...

In this article: The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs, The Nova Trilogy, Genesis P-Orridge, Husker Du, Olympia Press, Electronic Revolution, and Nova Express

...first 175 years. Obscene recounts the tale of Rosset's involvement with Grove Press from the tentative first steps to a bizarre downfall fueled by union trouble, feminist trouble, and alleged CIA-backed terrorism. In the interim, Rosset...

In this article: I Am Curious, Evergreen Review, John Dillinger, Tropic of Cancer, and Lady Chatterly's Lover

...Street, which remained in print for 20 years. Grove Press celebrated its publication in early '65 with a party for Larner and William Burroughs, where Norman Mailer challenged Larner to a fight. First novel, ''Drive, He Said''; Writing...

In this article: Drive, He Said, Robert Redford, The Candidate, Dan Quayle, New York City, Dissent, The Paris Review, Oscar Robertson, and Mary McCarthy

...life as an editor, translator and publisher were history. I didn't know the young Richard Seaver who went to work for Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press, in 1959. Dick Seaver became editor-in- chief at Grove, where he published...

In this article: Arcade Publishing, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, and NPR

...a 1998 issue of The New Yorker. Grove Press, the publishers of the book, had a long history with Burroughs dating back to the early 1960s when they published the first North American edition of Naked Lunch, sparking a landmark obscenity case.

In this article: William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, The New Yorker, Naked Lunch, and Allen Ginsberg

...distribution by Arthouse Films. Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor's docu looks at Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press and Evergreen Review who waged repeated U.S. court battles over freedom of the press. Interviews and footage with...

In this article: Jim Carroll, Evergreen Review, Che Guevara, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jack Kerouac

...ends with a list of authors who owe their first publication in the USA to the film's subject, Barney Rosset, the pioneering editor whose Grove Press publishing house risked financial ruin to challenge America's strict censorship laws. It's...

In this article: Death Defying Acts, The Prestige, Harry Houdini, Jackson Pollock, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, and Jeff Clark