{"id":7810,"date":"2012-02-23T05:47:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2012-02-22T23:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:49:49","slug":"barney-rosset-1922-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/barney-rosset-1922-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Barney Rosset (1922 – 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>from NYT obit:<\/p>\n

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Barney Rosset, Trailblazing Publisher, Dies at 89<\/h3>\n
By\u00a0JOHN WILLIAMS<\/a><\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Barney Rosset, the legendary owner of Grove Press who fought legal battles to publish provocative writers, including Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett, has died at 89. The Associated Press obituary is\u00a0here<\/a>. The Times\u2019s obituary will be up soon.<\/p>\n

Mr. Rosset\u2019s experiences and his legacy are amply documented online. Hisinterview with The Paris Review<\/a>, which was published in 1997 but \u201cculled from over a dozen conversations held between 1993 and 1996 in Mr. Rosset\u2019s East Village loft,\u201d is a chronicle of interactions with, and opinions about, Miller, Beckett, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Malcolm X and just about every other notable literary figure of the 1950s and \u201960s. \u201cThey banned [Beckett] in the Soviet Union,\u201d Mr. Rosset told the magazine. \u201c\u2018Waiting for Godot\u2019 was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn\u2019t publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n

ctd. here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The full NYT obit just went up, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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