News & Announcements

Like life itself, Kickstarter campaigns demand resilience, obsession, delusional thinking,…and an inbred, mortal terror of humiliation. Yes, the cockroach guy, another iconic rebel published in Barney Rosset’s counter-culture, in your face, literary/political magazine “Evergreen Review”, soon to re-launch on-line, watch

“How can I watch Lemonade? Did Jay Z cheat on Beyoncé? Who is ‘Becky with the good hair’? Are Jay Z and Beyoncé even married? It’s not too late to catch up…” We are all experienced in the cheating heart

Here is a missive on wanting. Want to leave your job, but are afraid of the unemployment line? Want to leave your partner but dread Match.com or, omg, TINDER? Do NOT put your kitten or puppy photo on your online

Successfully raised $81,797 with 188 backers! Dare to think differently. Question authority. Confront the status quo. Defend free expression. Previous update  

CREATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR YOU, OUR LOYAL BACKERS  (Our designer’s photoshop crashed: the actual leash will NOT look when you get it as if it has been chewed by fleas) Embroidered on the leash (inspired by MacBeth’s battle cry): UNLEASH THE

BEHIND BARNEY’S WALL: A FEW SCENES Korean suicide knife vignette embedded by Barney in his wall Team Barney: David Leitner (cinematographer), Sandy Gotham Meehan (producer), Williams Cole (producer) Side view of Barney’s wall Barney crew and visitors Barney’s pool table

WHEN LIVES CONVERGE: KEROUAC, CHINA AND LADY CHATTERLEY Put together a Bangkok novelist, a legendary New York publisher, and a guy who writes military history… by Bob Bergin, originally published in “The Evergreen Review” I knew Christopher G. Moore for

For all you LITERARY HOUNDS… Our film Barney’s Wall” has just been profiled in “The Paris Review”, as a tribute to Barney Rosset and his fierce battles for free expression. Barney’s Wall today on the Paris Review Daily: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/ Barney Rosset

“I would not have wanted to have been God because that for me would have been a dead end.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon: “You don’t reason with intellectuals, you shoot them” What was censored in 1809 when Napoleon ruled France:

“You might not know what’s going to fly into your web, but you put it where you think there might be flies. If you leave your web out long enough, you might have the option to pick only those flies

“Growing up, I belonged to nothing because in a city like Chicago there were two groups that I think really had great prejudice against them, and that was the Jews and the Irish—and I was both of them! And they

“Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, sweeping into history at the head of the toiling masses, and staking everything on their vast and simple desires. Already the machinery had been set up by

Samuel Beckett… How did you feel in second grade when you lost the spelling bee contest to your frenemy? We dedicate the two typos (if you find any more let us know) in our last Update, “Waiting”, to Sam.  

Waiting for Time Warner to replace your cable box? Waiting for a Tinder swipe? Waiting for your buzz cut to grow out? Waiting for an orgasm? Waiting for your cold sore to heal? Waiting for your boss to be transferred?

In 1955, the Postal Service seized a rare volume of “Lysistrata,” a 2,400 year old Greek play in which Greek women withhold sex to force Spartan and Athenian warriors to abandon war. The Postmaster General condemned the play as “obscene, lewd

The trite mythos of the outlaw; the self-conscious romanticism of the outlaw; the black wardrobe of the outlaw; the fey smile of the outlaw; the tequila of the outlaw and the beans of the outlaw; respectable men sneer and say

FOUR REASONS WHY YOU ARE LUCKY TO BE A MILLENNIAL…AND A LATE BABY BOOMER #1 That headline is a joke…for now. #2 YOU CAN BUY COMIC BOOKS. In the 1950’s, however, you couldn’t read any comic books because… COMIC BOOKS

We reveal the bloody truth of what it’s like to be behind the scenes on Kickstarter This is the raw truth. We are shark bait. Only you can help us stay alive. So bring them in, all the as yet clueless

#1 You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog because you don’t regurgitate your food and you have no umwelt.  According to an early-20th-­century German biologist, to understand an animal you must begin by “considering their umwelt . . . their

Keep reading and you’ll get to see luscious, pre-Tarantino Jennifer Jason Leigh topless. Our Updates are the most intriguing on Kickstarter so stay tuned and dial in your friends. This is your film now, and as you all know, Kickstarter is

Dear Backers and Future Backers, Keep reading and you’ll get to see luscious, pre-Tarantino Jennifer Jason Leigh topless. Our Updates are the most intriguing on Kickstarter so stay tuned and dial in your friends. This is your film now, and as

Yes, you clever readers! That photo of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin in Update #2 is from the movie, Henry and June, the Hollywood version of one of the hottest literary and sexual relationships of all time. Here’s a reward

In the spirit of reciprocity we’re going to be giving you regular behind-the-scenes looks at how touch and go Barney Rosset’s battles for free expression were. NUMBER ONE: How “Tropic of Cancer” Almost Didn’t Make It to Your Bookshelf!  A

We enter our campaign’s second day with 20 amazing backers—your combined pledges helped Barney’s Wall raise $3,810 on our first day. Thank you so much! And thank you to the small army of people who’ve been retweeting and reposting about