Barney Rosset, icon of the publishing world and a personal hero, is the subject of a new documentary called "Obscene."Barney will also receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation.
I love this series of quotes from the article in today's New York Times:
Mr. Rosset went on: “All my life I followed the things that I liked — people, things, books — and when things were offered to me, I published them. I never did anything I really didn’t like. I had no set plan, but on the other hand we sometimes found ourselves on a trail. For example, out of Beckett came Pinter, and Pinter was responsible for Mamet. It was like a baseball team — Mamet to Pinter to Beckett.”
Mr. Rosset sipped from his drink and smiled. “Should we have had more of a business plan?” he added. “Probably. But then the publishers that did have business plans didn’t do any better.”
Barney is insanely rad.
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