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Title: Grove Press Reader 1951-2001 by S. E. Gontarski, Grove Press ISBN: 0-8021-3780-6 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A stunning anthology from Grove Press
Comment: If it were not for small publishing houses such as Grove Press - and they are getting fewer and fewer all the time in the days of huge monetary advances to often less-than-memorable authors - worthwhile writers would lack an outlet for their talents.

Folks highlighted in this wonderful anthology -including, to name a few, William Burroughs, Henry Miller and playwrite Samuel Becket - are now considered giants of literature, but this wasn't always the case. In the 1950s and 1960s, many areas of America were frighteningly conservative and tightly closed to anything new or experimental in literature. Grove Press was an exception and now, viewed with historical hindsight, one can thank God that they were.

Some entries were banned; others censored when they originally appeared. Some, read now, appear tame and one wonders why the subject matter caused such a fuss. Others, like Burroughs "Naked Lunch", still stir the dark places within those who read it, with its gripping, uncompromising prose and frighteningly realistic and powerful portrayals of realities which today we've grown far too accustomed to reading about - drug addiction, violence or the confusion of living in a world that pressures its inhabitants to conform rather than let loose their own imaginative worlds without fear of reprisal.

"The Grove Press Reader" is an invaluable collection of literature, particularly for those - like me - who may sometimes feel intimidated by these writers. This gives an excellent overall introduction to their works and, as a bonus, boasts an explicit history of the publishing company and the efforts of its owners and staff to ensure that good writing - no matter by whom - was brought to the public.