Loren Glass is professor of English and the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa. His books include Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 and Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde. He is directing a Digital Humanities initiative called “The Program Era Project.”
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Tropic of Barney
Loren Glass on the autobiography of Barney Rosset, legendary publisher of Grove Press....
Serious Series
Does the Modern Library's creation of a “common reader” prove the role of marketing in canon formation?...
The Mighty Mezz, Marijuana, and the Beat Generation
Mezz Mezzrow fostered a cannabis counterculture that got the Beat Generation writing....
Beat Biographer
Biography, rather than literary criticism, has become the dominant genre in the canonization of the Beats....
Golden Age
IN THE PREFACE TO THIS REMARKABLE memoir, Richard Seaver claims that he had never intended to publish it. And indeed he ...
Counter-Culture Colophon Part II: Grove Press in the 1960s
The second installment of Glass’s history of Barney Rosset’s legendary publishing empire....
Counter-Culture Colophon
On Barney Rosset and the history of Grove Press...
