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- When Grove Press published Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1964, the firm encountered relatively few censorship efforts, despite the book’s violence, graphic sexual activities, and vulgar language.
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The pieces later evolved into the full-length book, which was published in 1964 by Grove Press, which had previously published such controversial authors as William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller. Critics praised and censured the publication.
- Hubert Selby
- 1964
When Grove Press published Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1964, the firm encountered relatively few censorship efforts, despite the book’s violence, graphic sexual activities, and vulgar language.
May 30, 2018 · This ‘muddle of expectation’ surrounding Last Exit has resulted in a view of the novel as, at worst, titillating pornography – on its publication in the US (in 1964) by Grove Press, Time ...
- Carlton Brick
British politics. ‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ on trial. Peter Hoskin recalls the case, fifty years ago, that changed British attitudes to censorship. By Peter Hoskin. Picture the late Sir John Mortimer, the writer who brought Rumpole of the Bailey to television screens and bookshelves.
Barney Rosset published such controversial works as "Tropic of Cancer" and "Last Exit to Brooklyn," as well as Victorian literature considered by some to be pornographic Several years ago he was forced out of Grove and started his own publishing house, Blue Moon.
SEG: And where did you go from there, from Last Exit? HS: Well, the next book was quite a while later. I stayed drunk for about six years. And then, I wrote The Room out here, and that was really a great experience for me because I realized my debt to Grove Press in an indirect way. I had gotten totally screwed up with booze and drugs- didn't ...
Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America’s cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of Brooklyn.
