Obscene

To countless avant-garde novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights, publisher Barney Rosset -- proprietor of the legendary Grove Press -- qualifies as an undisputed hero. Via scores of in-court legal battles, Rosset fought aggressively and valiantly to defend the release of works as varied as William ...more

Barney Rosset is a man who loves the written word, and in the 1950s and '60s he was willing to do something about it; Rosset was the founder of the literary journal the Evergreen Review and ran the pioneering publishing house Grove Press. In his heyday, Rosset introduced many American readers to some of the most innovative figures in world literature, including Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Pinter and Hubert Selby Jr., but he's best known for his willingness ...more