Barney's Wall

Barney's Wall, a feature-length documentary filmed in Barney Rosset's New York City East Village loft, features an eclectic cast of writers, editors, publishers, artists, actors, filmmakers, musicians and friends of Barney. At the age of 88, Barney Rosset, the flamboyant and provocative publisher of Grove Press and Evergreen Review, who changed the course of publishing in the United States, began painting a gigantic mural on one wall of his loft, a defiant and final act of free expression. The film explores Degas' famous dictum, Art is not what you see, but what you make others see and demonstrates the truth of Rilke's observation that "the only journey is the one within."

Links

East Hampton Star: Rosset’s Great Wall May Come Down

Wall St. Journal: Barney Rosset’s East Village Mural Is Up for Grabs, if You Take the Wall

Huffington Post on Barney’s Wall

Newsweek: The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing

New York Times Obituary: Barney Rosset

Kurt Anderson Interview with Barney Rosset on the publication of the Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Paris Review Interviews Barney Rosset

History of Evergreen Review

Los Angeles Times: Barney Rosset, Contemporary Literature’s Champion

Barney Rosset, A Remembrance

The Brooklyn Rail On Barney Rosset

The Village Voice: At BAM, Celebrate the Works Anti-Censorship Crusaders Championed

Barney’s Rosset’s Strange Victory: The Documentary for Our Time

Literary Hub on Barney Rosset

The Paris Review