Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel ...

Nobody pigeonholes Barney Rosset—longtime owner of Grove Press, anti-censorship crusader, countercultural icon. Not Screw founder Al Goldstein, who in a 1989 interview addressed him as “the worst, ...

Barney Rosset, who has died aged 89, was the most influential avant-garde publisher of the 20th century. He was also one of the boldest, in his willingness to question the laws governing censorship.

On a nondescript block south of New York's Union Square, up a dreary staircase and through a black-barred gate, there is a long, narrow room that might be mistaken for a very small museum of literary ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Barney Rosset was not an author and never completed the memoir of his brave and wild life. But few over the past 60 years had so profound an impact on the way we read today. Rosset, ...

FYI: When Rosset was growing up in Chicago under the Hoover administration, John Dillinger was a hero of his – much like the Russian Communists You can save this article by registering for free here.

Independent publisher Barney Rosset was there for some of the most important — and controversial — developments in 20th century American literary history. The first to publish Samuel Beckett in the ...

“ Some people think my chief claim to fame is having published the first book to be sold over the counter in this country with the word fuck printed on its pages in all its naked glory.” That country ...

A whim was all it was, a chance to whack the ball with the world’s best for one more day on the newly resurfaced courts at Flushing Meadows. After losing his first-round U.S. Open match Monday, men’s ...

In some of Danish architect and artist Laurent Rosset’s worlds, there is no horizon. In others, there is a new physics, a skewed gravity. There are oceanic walls, mountains that float, and hills that ...

Barney Rosset, who has died aged 89, championed works which the rest of the books industry would not touch; as a result he was once described as “The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing”. 29 February ...