![]() When he failed to emerge, she gave up and decided to shoot Andy Warhol instead. The same year, Valerie Solanas, founder and sole member of SCUM (the Society for Cutting Up Men), stalked Rosset outside Grove’s offices hoping to stab him with an ice pick when he left the building to go to lunch. In 1968, his offices were firebombed by anti-Castro Cuban reserve officers in the American Air Force because he had published excerpts from Che Guevara’s diaries in Grove’s magazine, the Evergreen Review. He published some of the most controversial books of the 20th century and he never apologized for anything. ![]() During the 1950s and 1960s, Rosset turned a tiny publishing company named Grove Press into one of America’s most provocative and effective instruments of free expression. With these regrettable circumstances in mind, it is worth recalling the life, career, and example of renegade American publisher Barney Rosset. Large multinational publishing firms have hastily withdrawn controversial titles and it has become distressingly common to read apologies issued to those vilifying their authors from the blogosphere, along with undertakings to “listen” and “do better” in the future. To this challenge from below, publishers have, by and large, responded with dismaying timidity. ![]() It is by now a familiar truism that the Internet-and social media, in particular-has awarded the intolerant, the narrow-minded, and the censorious unprecedented power.
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