Browsing Archive: February, 2012

Ave Atque Vale: Dmitri Nabokov, 1934-2012

Posted by Roger Boylan on Friday, February 24, 2012,
Dimitri Nabokov, pictured above, has died, aged 77. I corresponded with him about his father's work--he was especially generous in his praise of an essay of mine on that topic--and about the cars in his life. There were many. He was an expert racing driver and an aficionado of Italian iron, especially that produced under the sign of the rearing horse, in Maranello. I wrote an article about his automotive career for Autosavant, using generic photos of the cars referred to. He, having re...
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Barney Rosset, 1922-2012

Posted by Roger Boylan on Wednesday, February 22, 2012,

Barney Rosset, one-of-a-kind editor, publisher, and free-speech crusader, is dead at 89. He led the charge against obscurantism and puritanism in the Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer court cases, and was the first to publish Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eugene Ionesco in this country. Without him, modern literature would have been very different. It was a signal honor for me to have a small part in his publishing history, via my recent submission to The Evergreen Review...


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Jetzt, ein Bisschen auf Englisch

Posted by Roger Boylan on Monday, February 20, 2012,
It's been nearly six years since the third novel of my Killoyle trilogy was published in German, as Killoyle Wein und Kaese (Killoyle Wine and Cheese) by Rogner und Bernhard Verlag, then of Hamburg, now of Berlin. Then, in 2007, the rights were sold to a Swiss publisher, Kein und Aber, who issued the trilogy in a boxed set, also in German. Meanwhile, it aroused no interest in the English-speaking world--until now. The legendary editor Barney Rosset, founder of Grove Press and Evergreen Review...
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