{"id":3313,"date":"2012-02-25T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/radical-publishing-pioneer-barney-rosset-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:28:19","slug":"radical-publishing-pioneer-barney-rosset-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/25\/radical-publishing-pioneer-barney-rosset-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Publishing Pioneer Barney Rosset Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/24\/books\/barney-rosset-loved-breaking-publishings-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Man Who Made Publishing a High-Wire Act<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/02\/24\/arts\/ROSSET1\/ROSSET1-articleLarge.jpg\" itemid=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/02\/24\/arts\/ROSSET1\/ROSSET1-articleLarge.jpg\" itemprop=\"url\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #909090; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: 11px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the mostly tweedy, genteel world of book publishing in the 1960s and \u201970s,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/barney_rosset\/index.html?scp=1-spot&amp;sq=barney%20rosset&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">Barney Rosset,<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/23\/arts\/barney-rosset-grove-press-publisher-dies-at-89.html?scp=2&amp;sq=barney%20rosset&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">died on Tuesday at 89,<\/a>\u00a0was a bit of an outlaw: a raffish, unconventional figure who loved breaking the rules and challenging the conventions. He published the books that nobody else would, because they were too risqu\u00e9 or too avant-garde (often that meant the same thing) or too unprofitable, and his imprint, Grove Press, quickly became a badge of coolness and sophistication.<\/p>\n<p>If you were a literary young man at the time and wanted to impress the kind of soulful-eyed girl who wore black turtlenecks and smoked Gauloises, there was no better way than to have a stack of Grove books in your dorm room: some Beckett, Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, C\u00e9line. You didn\u2019t necessarily have to have read them. They just had to be visible.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rosset lived to take chances \u2014 traditional publishing would have bored him \u2014 and the more unknown a writer was, the more he liked him.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/24\/books\/barney-rosset-loved-breaking-publishings-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times The Man Who Made Publishing a High-Wire Act Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times In the mostly tweedy, genteel world of book publishing in the 1960s and \u201970s,\u00a0Barney Rosset,\u00a0who\u00a0died on Tuesday at 89,\u00a0was a bit of an outlaw: a raffish, unconventional figure who loved breaking the rules and challenging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}