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Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, and Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United States.
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Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (May 28, 1922 – February 21, 2012) was a pioneering American book and magazine publisher. An avant-garde taste maker, he founded Grove Press in 1951 and Evergreen Review in 1957, both of which gave him platforms for curating world-class and, in several cases, Nobel prize-winning work by authors including Samuel Beckett (1969), Pablo Neruda (1971), Octavio Paz ...
Grove Atlantic, Inc. is an American independent publisher, based in New York City. Formerly styled " Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ", it was created in 1993 by the merger of Grove Press and Atlantic Monthly Press .
The Ticket That Exploded is a 1962 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Olympia Press and later by Grove Press in 1967. Together with The Soft Machine and Nova Express it is part of a trilogy, referred to as The Nova Trilogy, created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method.
Grove Press historian Loren Glass wrote, "Jordan shared Rosset's left-wing political sympathies and became deeply dedicated to realizing his vision for the press." [3] Jordan initially oversaw marketing and sales. Being a native speaker of German, he also read books written in German for potential publication by Grove Press. [7]
Grove Press bought the American publication rights, and initially planned to exclude the chapters describing Hassan's "Rumpus Room" and A.J.'s party. [38] Burroughs himself had called those sections "pornographic" and expected they would be cut from a US release, although he also felt they constituted a political argument against capital ...
In 1993 he merged this company with Grove Press to create Grove/Atlantic Inc. [3] In 2015, he launched Literary Hub with editor Terry McDonell and publisher Andy Hunter. [4] He was the recipient of the 2017 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.