Saturday, January 14, 2012

Guantanamo?s Anniversary, Explainer of the Year, and the Golden Age of Publishing 

??All the Young Dudes: A posthumous memoir goes behind the scenes at the celebrated publisher of Burroughs, Lawrence, and Malcolm X,? by Choire Sicha. From his dabbling in Parisian literary magazines to his tenure at the groundbreaking Grove Press (which brought Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to U.S. audiences), writer and editor Richard Seaver embodied the ?Golden Age of Publishing.? His memoir, The Tender Hour of Night, released three years after his death, captures his debonair and innovative spirit. But, as Sicha argues, the book casts an unwitting light on the sexism that plagued Grove until it closed in 1971. Seaver was unapologetic in his exclusion of female voices?and that?s a hard fact for even his biggest fangirls to swallow. ?????

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