Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2008)

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A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch" to publication.

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

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Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka as Self Died 2014 · Newark, New Jersey, USA Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He...
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs as Self (archive footage) Died 1997 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who in...
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll as Self Died 2009 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, actor and punk musician. He was the author of “The Basketball Diaries,” a cult-classic memoir of his drug-fueled misadventures as a teen...
John Sayles
John Sayles as Self Age 75 · Schenectady, New York, USA John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist..
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal as Self Died 2012 · West Point, New York, USA Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated th...
John Waters
John Waters as Self Age 80 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970)...
Director Neil Ortenberg
Cast Barney Rosset, Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Sayles, Gore Vidal, John Waters, John Rechy

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