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On\u00a0Saturday, November 18, New York University\u2019s Forum on Law, Culture, and Society will\u00a0host a screening of\u00a0<\/em>Barney\u2019s Wall,\u00a0a seventy-three-minute documentary about Barney Rosset,<\/em>\u00a0the provocative and iconoclastic publisher at Grove Press who,\u00a0in the 1960s, published numerous now-canonical books and helped overturn\u00a0contemporary censorship laws. Lorin Stein, the editor of <\/em>The Paris\u00a0Review, will participate in a conversation after the screening with<\/em>\u00a0the film\u2019s director,\u00a0Sandy Gotham Meehan, writer and editor\u00a0Alan Kaufman,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<\/em>New Republic editor Win McCormack<\/em>.\u00a0Tickets are available here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In celebration of this event and of Rosset\u2019s legacy,\u00a0we have<\/em>\u00a0unlocked our interview with him for a limited time. \u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Barney Rosset, The Art of Publishing, No. 2<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Issue no. 145 (Winter 1997)<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I grew up in Chicago, communism was my idea of personal freedom. Especially freedom to make love, right? Actually \u201cfree love\u201d was a huge slogan used\u00a0against<\/em>\u00a0the communists. I never heard the communists use it themselves\u2014but it was implicit in communism, because Lenin said sex should be like having a glass of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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