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A discussion of Tapestry as a watershed in musical and cultural history, challenging the male dominance of the music and entertainment industries"--

How Grove Press ended censorship of the printed word in America.Grove Press and its house journal, The Evergreen Review, revolutionized the publishing industry and radicalized the reading habits of the "paperback generation." In telling this story, Rebel Publisher offers a new window onto the long 1960s, from 1951, when Barney Rosset purchased the fledgling press for $3, 000, to 1970, when the multimedia corporation into which he had built the...

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Over the course of the nineteenth century in both Europe and the United States, the state usurped the traditional authority of the church in regulating sexual expression and behavior. In the same century philosophers of classical liberalism identified that state function as a threat to individual liberty. Since then, liberalism has provided the framework for debates over obscenity around the globe. But liberalism has recently been under siege,...

Loren Glass is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880¿1980 (2004).

An investigation of how popular modernist writers handled their fame.

The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl's The Program Era provoked a sea change in the study of postwar literature. After The Program Era explores the consequences and implications, as well as the lacunae and liabilities, of McGurl's foundational intervention. McGurl focuses only on American fiction and the traditional MFA program, and this collection aims to expand and examine its insights in terms of other genres and sites.