The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Grove Press Issue
INTRODUCTIONS * S. E. Gontarski, "Dionysis in Publishing: Barney Rosset, Grove Press, and the Making of a Countercanon" * John Oakes, "Barney Rosset and the Art of Combat Publishing: An Interview" * Barney Rosset, "On Publishing" DOCUMENTS * "Military Intelligence?" * Samuel Beckett, "Letters to Barney Rosset" * Maurice Girodias, "Letters to Barney Rosset" * Barney Rosset, "Letters to Michel Hoffman" * Barney Rosset, "Letter to Maurice Girodias" * Fred Jordan, "Letter to Henry Miller" * Gregory Corso, "Two Drawings for Barney" INTERVIEWS WITH AUTHORS AND EDITORS * "Working at Grove: An Interview with Gilbert Sorrentino" * "Last Exit to Brooklyn: An Interview with Hubert Selby" * "An Interview with Michael McClure" * "Olympia and Grove: An Interview with Maurice Girodias" * "Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Grove Press" * "Don Allen: Grove's First Editor" ASSESSMENTS * John Rechy, "On Being a 'Grove Press Author'" * John Calder, "The Transatlantic Connection" * Nicholas Zurbrugg, "'Within a Budding Grove': Pubescent Postmodernism and the Early Evergreen Review" * Bruce King, "Evergreen Review, Grove Press, and Jazz" * Charles Marowitz, "Private Communiques/Public Prints" * John Oakes, "The Last Days of Grove" JULIAN RIOS'S LARVA * Julian Rios, "Supernumerary Note (with the hint: 'to dust the reader's jacket') from the Ubiquitous Commentator" * Richard Alan Francis, "Foreword for the Forewarned" * Suzanne Jill Levine, "Afterwords on Afterthoughts" * Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier, "An Interview with Julian Rios" * Books Received * Annual Index