Beckett's literary guide to America

International Herald Tribune;  April 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......000, he had purchased the then-obscure Grove Press, named for the Greenwich Village street...friendship, the meeting produced a contract. Grove Press paid the future Nobel Prize winner a...Currently, ''Waiting for Godot'' is Grove Press's best-selling backlist title, according...

A Champion of 'Dirt' Is Hanging Tough

International Herald Tribune;  April 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ......end of 9th Street.'' Rosset and his Grove Press published what used to be called ''dirty...cheeks and tears of joy: ''When I started Grove Press in 1951, publishing 'Tropic Of Cancer...honesty in our society because of the Grove Press books that Rosset published. He is proud...

Ready-made rebellion: the empty tropes of transgressive fiction.(Seconds...

Harper's Magazine;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of Pleasure: Stories, by Neil LaBute. Grove Press, 2004. 221 pages. $22. Music for Torching...for Tough, Tough Boys, by Will Self. Grove Press, 2000. 244 pages. $12 (paper). Survivor...13 (paper). Frisk, by Dennis Cooper. Grove Press, 2000. 144 pages. $12 (paper). Good...

Reviving slice of avant-garde Duo restoring triptych of works by Beckett,...

International Herald Tribune;  December 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......adventures of the last half-century. Grove Press, which he purchased in 1951 for $3,000...experimental and avant-garde shorts in 1967, Grove Press's film division interchangeably called...Rocha, Robert Downey and others.When Grove Press was sold to the oil heiress Ann Getty...

`Valley of the Dolls,'

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 7, 1997 ;     448 words ...`Valley of the Dolls,' by Jacqueline Susann (Grove Press paperback reissue, $12) Jacqueline Susann's Valley of...after being out of print for more than 15 years. With Grove Press' reissue of the novel and the scheduled re-release next...

IMPROVE IT; THE CASE FOR CLOSETS.(HOME & GARDEN)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 9, 2005 ;     182 words ......the Personalized Closet, by Patricia Coen, Bryan Milford (Grove Press, $7.50). Practical advice on using your storage space or designing...Home Organizer, by Maxine Ordesky, Jessica Elin Hirschman (Grove Press, $22). From the basement to the attic, from closets to kitchens...

Appropriative urge

Artforum;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Scholder and Dennis Cooper. New York: Grove Press. 352 pages. $14; Rip-off Red, Girl...America, by Kathy Acker. New York: Grove Press. 208 pages. $14. Kathy Acker died in 1997, and now Grove Press continues to champion her work by publishing...

CARE BEAR.(Grove Press Inc. releases Clifford Chase's Winkie)

WWD;  July 11, 2006 ;     525 words ......a high-security prison. Sound implausible? Not if you are Clifford Chase, whose fiction debut, Winkie, out this month from Grove Press, lays out just such a premise. The allegorical story follows a teddy bear of indeterminate gender named Winkie who is tracked...

From the Big Thicket to Vietnam and Back

The Texas Observer;  January 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Pete's Pond By H. Palmer Hall Pecan Grove Press 31 pages, $5.00 To Wake Again By H...Reflections from Pete's Pond through Pecan Grove Press, the small publishing house he has run...has just hit the shelves. His Pecan Grove Press now enjoys a national and international...

`The Sexual Life of Catherine M.,' translated by Adriana Hunter, by...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in the night? Didn't the late, great sociologist Bourdieu concentrate on social classes doing it to one another? In fact, Grove Press, the American publisher, even took the high road. They didn't title the book Tuesdays _ and Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays...

`The Sexual Life of Catherine M.,' translated by Adriana Hunter, by...

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  August 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in the night? Didn't the late, great sociologist Bourdieu concentrate on social classes doing it to one another? In fact, Grove Press, the American publisher, even took the high road. They didn't title the book Tuesdays _ and Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays...

Husband and Wife. (Book Notes: Literature: Fiction, Drama, Poetry).(Book...

Shofar;  January 1, 2003 ;     66 words ...Husband and Wife, by Zeruya Shalev. New York: Grove Press, 2002. 311 pp. $24.00. ISBN 0-8021-1718-X. The husband and wife of the title are Na'ama and Udi, lovers since their teenage years...

(book review)

Book;  May 1, 2002 ;     87 words ...RICHARD FLANAGAN Grove Press 416 pages **** Little more than a year since the publication of Death of a River Guide, the Tasmanian author returns with this...

Ten Little Indians.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Book;  July 1, 2003 ;     200 words ...SHERMAN ALEXIE Grove Press 243 pages **** In the nine short stories that comprise Alexie's latest collection, life is portrayed as paradoxical and raw, as...

NORTHWEST BOOKSHELF.(What's Happening)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  June 8, 2001 ;     129 words ...IN THE CITY OF SHY HUNTERS: Tom Spanbauer, Grove Press, 504 pages, $26. The Portland writer makes a long-awaited return with a powerful novel that explores the dawning days of the AIDS...