Research Catalog

Title

The Grove Press reader, 1951-2001 / edited and with an introduction by S.E. Gontarski.

Publication

New York : Grove Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Gontarski, S. E.
• Grove Press

Description

xxxix, 421 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001 is a celebratory anthology featuring the seminal writers published over the past fifty years. Along with the excerpts there is an introductory overview that recounts the history of the company, retrospective essays by Grove's key publishers and editors, and previously unpublished letters between authors and editors. A delightful and surprising anthology. The Grove Press Reader commemorates a spirit of independent publishing that has flourished for fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Literature > Collections

Genre/Form

• Collections
• Collections.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Life and Times of Grove Press / S. E. Gontarski -- 1950s -- Barney Rosset Interviews Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, WNET Radio (1959) -- from The Monk (1952) / Matthew G. Lewis -- "Must We Burn Sade?" (1953) / Simone de Beauvoir -- Letters (1953-1955) / Samuel Beckett and Barney Rosset -- from Waiting for Godot (1954) / Samuel Beckett -- from Molloy (1955) / Samuel Beckett -- "The Bald Soprano: The Tragedy of Language" (1964) / Eugene Ionesco -- from The Bald Soprano (1956) / Eugene Ionesco -- "Written Address to the Italian Judge" (1963) / Jack Kerouac -- from The Subterraneans (1958) / Jack Kerouac -- "The Theater and Cruelty" (1958) / Antonin Artaud -- from Lady Chatterley's Lover (1959) / D. H. Lawrence -- Letters to Barney Rosset (1959) / Henry Miller -- 1960s -- 1960s: Within a Budding Grove / Richard Seaver -- "The Novelist as Editor: An Interview with S. E. Gontarski" / Gilbert Sorrentino -- Preface to The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 (1960) / Donald M. Allen -- from Cain's Book (1960) / Alexander Trocchi -- from In the Labyrinth (1960) / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- from Moderato Cantabile (1960) / Marguerite Duras -- "Statement in Support of the Freedom to Read: from Evergreen Review (1962) -- on Tropic of Cancer from The Paris Review (1997) / Barney Rosset -- Preface to Tropic of Cancer (1963) / Anais Nin -- from Tropic of Cancer (1961) / Henry Miller -- from The Labyrinth of Solitude (1961) / Octavio Paz -- "The Babylon Lottery" (1962) / Jorge Luis Borges -- on Naked Lunch (1964) / Terry Southern -- from Naked Lunch (1962) / William S. Burroughs -- from My Life and Loves (1963) / Frank Harris -- Introduction to City of Night (1984) / John Rechy -- from City of Night (1963) / John Rechy -- "About Evergreen Review No. 32" (1964) -- from The Thief's Journal (1964) / Jean Genet -- from Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) / Hubert Selby, Jr. -- from Justine (1965) / The Marquis de Sade -- from The Homecoming (1965) / Harold Pinter -- from My Secret Life (1966) / Anonymous -- from Sheeper (1967) / Irving Rosenthal -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin: Alternate Ending" (1967) / Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) / Tom Stoppard -- from Bolivian Diaries (1968) / Che Guevara -- from The Wretched of the Earth (1968) / Frantz Fanon -- from Big Time Buck White (1969) / Joseph Dolan Tuotti -- from A Personal Matter (1969) / Kenzaburo Oe -- 1970s and 1980s -- "Grove in the '70s" / Kent Carroll -- from American Buffalo (1977) / David Mamet -- from A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) / John Kennedy Toole -- Ohio Impromptu (1981) / Samuel Beckett -- from Spanking the Maid (1982) / Robert Coover -- from Blood and Guts in High School (1984) / Kathy Acker -- from Hurlyburly (1985) / David Rabe -- "Fathering" (1988) / Bharati Mukherjee -- from Closer (1989) / Dennis Cooper -- 1990s -- "Grove in the '90s" / Morgan Entrekin -- from Kitchen (1993) / Banana Yoshimoto -- "Romero's Shirt" (1994) / Dagoberto Gilb -- "Coming Close to Donna" (1994) / Barry Hannah -- from The Painted Bird (1995) / Jerzy Kosinski -- from The Butcher and Other Erotica (1996) / Alina Reyes -- from The Magic Christian (1996) / Terry Southern -- from Che: A Revolutionary Life (1997) / Jon Lee Anderson -- from Great Apes (1997) / Will Self -- from The Passion (1997) / Jeanette Winterson -- from The Ultimate Intimacy (1998) / Ivan Klima -- from The Long Night of White Chickens (1998) / Francisco Goldman -- from Mr. Spaceman (2000) / Robert Olen Butler -- from The Natural Order of Things (2000) / Antonio Lobos Antunes -- from Suicide Blonde (2000) / Darcey Steinke -- "The Toughest Indian in the World" (2001) / Sherman Alexie.

ISBN

0802137806 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00049051^

OCLC

• 45093896
• SCSB-10644508

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library