Loren glass english college of liberal arts and sciences the. The reading also will be streamed live on the university of iowa writing university website. Aug 05, 2014 counter culture colophon is a book i strongly recommend to anyone interested in contemporary literature and of course, publishing. Infamous modernist on personalities in postwar publishing. Publishers weekly loren glasss book counterculture colophon. Hear the remarkable story of a the man behind paperback publisher grove press, and how he and the books he published fit into the culture of the 1960s.
The garden of eros counterculture colophon hothouse. If you like reading about an era of vibrant transatlantic cultural exchange and a time when france. Grove press is an american publishing imprint that was founded in 1947. Loren glass, author of counterculture colophon, the publishing house biography of the avantgarde incubator, grove press, will hold a discussion with authors boris kachka hothouse and jay gertzman samuel roth. Loren glass is a professor of english at the university of iowa. The online version ceased publication in 20 and was revived in march 2017 with or books copublisher john oakes as publisher and writer and critic dale peck as editorinchief. Counterculture colophon is an informative and intriguing history of the rise and fall of grove press and its owner, barney rosset, and in telling it loren glass throws light on a period when literary and social tastes and attitudes were rapidly changing. The atlantic monthly press, under the aegis of its publisher. Read rebel publisher grove press and the revolution of the word by loren glass available from rakuten kobo. How grove press ended censorship of the printed word in america.
Glass suggests that by targeting a growing college and university population with quality paperback books, and by creating an identifiable countercultural brand to. He writes on 20th and 21stcentury anglophone literature and culture. Aug 05, 2014 groves accomplishments and innovations are legion and well documented by loren glass in this book. Loren glass loren glass is professor of english and the center for the book at the university of iowa. If you like reading about an era of vibrant transatlantic cultural exchange and. Loren glass observes in his new book on grove that the paperback generation was the last. Evergreen was one of the first publications in the us to treat comics as adult reading matter with reprints of barbarella and a couple of strips by frank springer. His work focuses on american literature and culture of the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries.
While counterculture colophon is written as an academic history, and sometimes glass falls prey to academic terminology that may put off the nonscholarly readers, i was happy to overlook the academic jargon and focus on the compelling story he. Groves accomplishments and innovations are legion and well documented by loren glass in this book. Counterculture colophon reorients the coordinates of this discussion, focusing instead on the relationship between publisher and reader, a relationship that presents the printed text in a complementary as opposed to an antagonistic relation to live performance. It gives us the odd glimpse of greenwich village nights fuelled by booze and amphetamines, but in general it steers clear of the gossipy tone that defines kachkas book and, to a lesser extent, calders. Barney rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the united states. Rebel publisher ebook by loren glass 9781609809225. Counter culture colophon is a book i strongly recommend to anyone interested in contemporary literature and of course, publishing. Loren glass, professor in the university of iowa department of english, will read from his new book, counterculture colophon. Counterculture colophon by loren glass, 9780804784160, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. University of iowa professor of english loren glass will read from his new book counterculture colophon. Oct 21, 2015 in this regard, loren glass s treatment of barney rosset jr.
May 28, 1922 february 21, 2012 was the owner of the publishing house grove press, and publisher and editorinchief of the magazine. Counterculture colophon loren glass stanford university press. I had sent them a draft of the introduction to my book on grove press, and they didnt like it. The colophon book shop was established in 1971 in lagrange, illinois, by robert and christine liska. These books were specifically conceived in response to the rising profile of cinema studies in the american university. Loren glass is the author of counterculture colophon 4. Shop amongst our popular books, including 7, rebel publisher, counterculture colophon and more from loren glass. Loren glass is an associate professor of english at the university of iowa. Counterculture colophon loren glass bok 9780804784160. As a publisher, grove worked to market printed plays as supplements to. Loren glass covers the full spectrum of groves remarkable achievement as a communications center for the counterculture. Counterculture colophon reorients the coordinates of this discussion.
An indispensable work on both a few of the causes and some of the effects of the political and cultural orientation of the paperback generation i. Loren glass responsible for such landmark publications as lady chatterleys lover, tropic of cancer, naked lunch, waiting for godot, the wretched of the earth, and the autobiography of malcolm x, grove press was. He partnered with richard seaver to bring french literature to the united states. In this regard, loren glasss treatment of barney rosset jr. Literary history and its incorporations by foley, abram. Thursday, may 9, in a free reading at prairie lights books in downtown iowa city. Modernist print culture american literary history oxford. Read the fulltext online edition of counterculture colophon.
He is the author of authors inc literary celebrity in the modern united states, 18801980 and counterculture colophon stanford university press. Loren glass covers the full spectrum of groves remarkable achievement as a communications center of the counterculture. I hold a joint appointment with the center for the book, and my more recent scholarship engages the emergent fields of book studies and the new sociology of literature. Glass suggests that by targeting a growing college and university population with quality paperback books, and by. Responsible for such landmark publications as lady chatterleys lover, tropic of cancer, naked lunch, waiting for godot, the wretched of the earth, and the autobiography of malcolm x, grove press was the most innovative publisher of the postwar era. His books include authors inc literary celebrity in the modern united states, 18801980 and counterculture colophon. My first book, authors inc literary celebrity in the modern united states. Oct 16, 2015 loren glass loren glass is professor of english and the center for the book at the university of iowa. Loren glass counterculture colophon posted on december 26, 2019 by 1960s. The move to new hampshire was made in 1982 and we are now located in exeter, new hampshire, one hour north of boston.
I have just completed a history of grove press entitled counterculture colophon. Responsible for such landmark publications as lady chatterleys lover, tropic of cancer, naked lunch, waiting for godot, the wretched of the earth, and the autobiography of malcolm x, grove press was the most. Responsible for such landmark publications as lady chatterleys lover, tropic of cancer, naked lunch, waiting for godot,the wretched of the earth, and the autobiography of malcolm x, grove press was the most innovative publisher of the postwar era. Loren glasss book about barney rosset and grove press, cultural colophon, is quite different. Click to listen to an audio recording of author loren glass reading from his book about grove press counter culture colophon, live from prairie lights, may 9. Loren glass is the associate professor of english at the university of iowa and author of authors inc literary celebrity in the modern united states, 18801980 and counterculture colophon. Counterculture colophon a history of grove press and its publisher barney rosset.
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