Barney's Wall: Portrait of A Game Changer

How radical Grove publisher Barney Rosset's mid-50's censorship battles blew open America's culture, sex and politics and birthed the Sixties counterculture.

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William S. Burroughs, New Years Eve, 1959:
'Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.'
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William S. Burroughs, New Years Eve, 1959:
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change."
#2022 #newyearsresolution #goals2022 #nye2022 #newyearseve2021 #newyears2022 @groveatlantic @guernicamag @parisreview @burroughsquote @lithub

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“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.” �� Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn https://t.co/OBY3BkUU8V

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Samuel Beckett sells his rights to Barney Rosset / Grove Press for $150. Clip from BARNEY'S WALL: Portrait of a Game Changer https://t.co/BWLOcHzdqA

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“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn https://t.co/OBY3BkUU8V

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Samuel Beckett sells his rights to Barney Rosset / Grove Press for $150. Clip from BARNEY'S WALL: Portrait of a Game Changer https://t.co/BWLOcHzdqA

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BARNEY'S WALL the doc NOW SCREENING virtually at #HamptonsDocFest BUY TICKET to watch 24/7 through Dec 13, 2020: https://t.co/fjcgQ7YVur

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Virtual Hamptons Doc Fest to open with Martin Luther King film https://t.co/s5kzDxDmI6 via @Newsday

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As we all go forward ever more frequently into ambiguity, not a state of mind or soul that our species is easily equiped to handle, let us keep this in mind:

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Bored?

#TGIF!

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BARNEY'S WALL: Portrait of a Game Changer to open the Prague Writers' Festival, October 16, 2019. 5pm

SCREENING, at Tržiště 13, Praha 1, American Center, Prague, Czech Republic! Post-screening commentary with Michael Cunningham, author of "The Hours".

Be there or be BANNED.

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BARNEY'S WALL: Portrait of a Game Changer to open the Prague Writers' Festival, October 16, 2019. 5pm

SCREENING, at Tržiště 13, Praha 1, American Center, Prague, Czech Republic! Post-screening commentary with Michael Cunningham, author of "The Hours".

Be there or be BANNED.

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Hey Louisville! Come see our epic portrait of the rebel who spawned the 60s counter-culture rebellion, whose heirs are Bernie and Elizabeth!

Screening October 10, 2019: Muhammad Ali Center

https://t.co/ylB40kEbGK

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Hey Louisville! Come see our epic portrait of the rebel who spawned the 60s counter-culture rebellion, whose heirs are Bernie and Elizabeth!

Screening October 10, 2019, Muhammad Ali Center

https://t.co/ylB40kEbGK

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Bored?

#TGIF!

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BARNEY'S WALL: Portrait of a Game Changer will open the Prague Writers' Festival, October 16, 2019. 5pm

SCREENING, at Tržiště 13, Praha 1, American Center, Prague, Czech Republic!

Post-screening commentary with Michael Cunningham, author of "The Hours". Be there or be BANNED.

[Barney's Wall: Portrait of A Game Changer @barneyswall]

BARNEY'S WALL: Portrait of a Game Changer will open the Prague Writers' Festival, October 16, 2019.

5pm SCREENING, at Tržiště 13, Praha 1, American Center, Prague, Czech Republic!

Post-screening commentary with Michael Cunningham, author of "The Hours". Be there or be BANNED.

[Barney's Wall: Portrait of A Game Changer @barneyswall]

BARNEY'S WALL: Portrait of a Game Changer will open the Prague Writers' Festival, October 16, 2019.

5pm SCREENING, at Tržiště 13, Praha 1, American Center, Prague, Czech Republic!

Post-screening commentary with Michael Cunningham, author of "The Hours".

Be there or be BANNED.

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#FiftyYearsFromNow America Goes Scandinavian. Finally.