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4 unusual facts about Grove Press


Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, a book by Howard Sounes, published in 1998 by Grove Press, is a biography of American writer Charles Bukowski.

Harvey Einbinder

New York: Grove Press, 1964 / London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964 / New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1972

Sarah Lindsay

In addition to writing the two chapbooks Bodies of Water and Insomniac's Lullabye, Lindsay has authored two books in the Grove Press Poetry Series: Primate Behavior (a National Book Award finalist) and Mount Clutter.

Transgressive fiction

In the late 1950s, American publisher Grove Press, under publisher Barney Rosset, began releasing decades-old novels that had been unpublished in most of the English-speaking world for many years due to controversial subject matter.


A Dying Colonialism

It was originally published in France by Maspero as L'An V de la Révolution Algérienne (Year Five of the Algerian Revolution) It was translated into English in 1965 and published by Monthly Review under the title Studies In A Dying Colonialism, which was shortened to A Dying Colonialism when appearing as a mass-market paperback by Grove Press in 1967.

Better Books

Better Books had a string of influential managers including Bill Butler, Bob Cobbing and Barry Miles, who set about ordering a large quantity of books from City Lights and Grove Press.

Cheshire Mammoth Cheese

The cheese inspired a critically acclaimed work of fiction, The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman in 2004 and published by the Grove Press, which told the story about a small town cheesemaker convinced by her pastor to make a giant cheese for the President-elect.

Gilbert Sorrentino

After working closely with Selby on the manuscript of Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964), Sorrentino was an editor at Grove Press from 1965 to 1970, where one of his editorial projects was The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

The System of Dante's Hell

The System of Dante's Hell is a short novel by African American writer LeRoi Jones, published in 1965 by Grove Press.

Tom Murton

The book he wrote about his experiences there (with co-author Joe Hyams), Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal, was published in 1969 by Grove Press.


see also

Cassian of Imola

In the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, protagonist Ignatius Reilly informs one of his professors that "St. Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his students with their styli." (Grove Press edition, p. 128).

Leila Aboulela

2005 Minaret, Grove Press, Black Cat (2005), ISBN 0-8021-7014-5