Charles McGrath celebrates the colorful life of publisher Barney Rosset in advance of his lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation. He quotes the old line of Rosset’s, “I had a very good publishing career, but not money-wise. We got rid of the money.” On his landmark legal battle for the right to publish Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer–which inspires in the print headline that Rosset “fought Puritanism, and won,” Rosset’s take is, “I loved that book. When I was a young man, it never occurred to me that it was about sex. What interested me was that Miller […]
