Barney Rosset was a publisher, not an author, and struggled for decades to write the story of his brave and wild life. But few over the past 60 years had so profound an impact on the way we read today ...

In 2012, when Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr. died, he left behind many nicknames: The Old Smut Peddler, The Last Maverick of Publishing, and The New York Anarchist, among others. To his friends he was Barney; ...

In 1967, a few years after he’d won a Supreme Court case over Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press founder Barney In 1967, a few years after he’d won a Supreme Court case over Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press ...

Barney Rosset turned down a chance to publish “The Hobbit.” That, he would recall, was an act of “stupendous stupidity.” But “The Hobbit” would surely have seemed out of place on the long list of ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Apr. 9, 1991. Publisher Barney Rosset, who championed the works of beat poets and defied censors, died Tuesday. He was 89. Rosset's Grove Press published ...

In 1962, there were 60 court cases underway in 21 states challenging the distribution of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. The novel, published in France in 1934, had never made it to the American ...

Anyone of an age to remember the adolescent thrill of leafing through a copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” or “Tropic of Cancer” will delight in “Obscene,” a fondly scruffy homage to the man who made ...

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In the 1950s, Barney Rosset was my hero. He published all the dirty books I’d been waiting to read and, in the process, changed the face of American reading. Grove Press—which Rosset ran—stood as a ...