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  • French explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300 day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Sunday, April 19, 2009 sunday supplement worth hearing - from NPR, Grove Press's Barney Rosset worth seeing, i hope - i was shocked and amazed to see someone dig up an old Joseph C Lincoln novel and film it.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Ms. Albers seems more fascinated by Mitchell's sex life than by her art, itemizing her turbulent relationships with Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset (whom she briefly married), the painters Michael Goldberg, Sam Francis and Jean-Paul Riopelle (for whom she permanently abandoned the U.S. for France), Samuel Beckett, and the composer David Amram, among others.

    A Fiercely Gifted Artist Karen WIlkin 2011

  • Rosset's private means supported this gambling habit—once readers could get the books, they sold in large quantities—but eventually he succumbed to the successful businessman's fatal flaw: overreach.

    He Knew It When He Saw It James Campbell 2012

  • "My writing days are over," he writes to his American publisher, Barney Rosset.

    Years of Intensity Gabriel Josipovici 2011

  • Arriving for work at the posh building one morning, Seaver was prevented from entering Rosset's office on the top floor.

    He Knew It When He Saw It James Campbell 2012

  • If Beckett is the hero of the first act, the second is dominated by Barney Rosset, the owner of Grove Press.

    He Knew It When He Saw It James Campbell 2012

  • The next year Rosset invited him for lunch and asked: "Why don't you join the excitement?"

    He Knew It When He Saw It James Campbell 2012

  • Sunday, April 19, 2009 sunday supplement worth hearing - from NPR, Grove Press's Barney Rosset worth seeing, i hope - i was shocked and amazed to see someone dig up an old Joseph C Lincoln novel and film it.

    sunday supplement 2009

  • Rosset would unsuccessfully try to win her back, and poignantly describes their relationship as that of “brother and sister.”

    Vitro Nasu » 2008 » September 2008

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