Creator:
Glass, Loren
Inclusive Dates:
2009- 2010
Abstract:
Interviews of former members of Grove Press, conducted by Loren Glass as part of the research for his book Counter-Culture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde.
Type of Material:
Sound recordings.
Interviews.
Subject:
Authors.
Editors and publishers.
Business and Industry
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
Book editors -- United States.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Creator:
Grove Press.
Inclusive Dates:
1948- 1998
Abstract:
Papers of the American publishing house founded by Barney Rosset.
Collection contains a small amount of personal correspondence from owner Barney Rossett, but the majority consists of
files relating to the company's production of books,
Evergreen Review magazine, films and record albums. For any given title, this may
include contracts, correspondence, legal records, photographs, publicity material, reviews, royalty statements, and
production records. Notable authors represented in the collection include Emmanuelle Arsan, Alan Ayckbourn, Imamu
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Samuel Beckett, Eric Berne, Paul Bowles, James Broughton, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite
Duras, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Frank, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Girodias, Witold Gombrowicz, Juan Goytisolo,
Nat Hentoff, André Hodeir, Eugène Ionesco, Jack Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Frank O'Hara,
Charles Olson, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, George Reavey, John Rechy, Kenneth Rexroth, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michael
Rumaker, Hubert Selby, Gilbert Sorrentino, Amos Tutuola, Parker Tyler, Tomi Ungerer, Alan Watts, and others. There
are extensive legal records and clippings files relating to the censorship trials surrounding the American publication of D.H. Lawrence's
Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's
Tropic of Cancer.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Audiotapes.
Book reviews.
Books.
Catalogs (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Film stills.
Financial statements.
Galley proofs.
Legal files.
Manuscripts for publication.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Negatives (photographs)
Phonograph records.
Photographs.
Publishers' catalogs.
Royalty statements.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Evergreen review.
Authors.
Editors.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Authors, French.
Authors and publishers.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde cinema.
Beat generation -- Poetry.
Censorship -- United States -- Cases.
Censorship -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Obscenity (Law) -- United States.
Literature, Experimental.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Creator:
Grove Press.
Inclusive Dates:
1960- 1972
Abstract:
Administrative records, financial records, correspondance, readers reports, photographs, and printed material related to the international literary award.
Type of Material:
Book reviews.
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Programs (documents)
Photographs.
Subject:
Kerkyra (Greece)
Paris (France)
Publishers.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Popular culture
Publishers and publishing -- Europe.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Literary prizes.