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The threats only get bigger from there — and we mean big

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ROY KUHLMAN RELUCTANT MODERNIST TP itemid_362064 writer Phil Hester opens withThe legacy of Grove Press is well known within literary circles how Barney Rosset bought a fledgling but failing publishing company in the early 1950s and changed the world of letters in America, and perhaps the very culture as well; Grove Press brought to national prominence the writers, art, and artists of the avant garde. Such groundbreaking works as Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby and Naked Lunch by