John Calder, Publisher Who Introduced Beckett, Burroughs, And `Last Exit To Brooklyn´ To Brits, Dead At 91
(ArtsJournal Music)

“[He] helped introduce British readers to continental writers including Eugene Ionesco, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and also championed edgy Americans, publishing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and William S. Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch.� In 1966 he was convicted of obscenity for publishing Hubert Selby’s gritty novel “Last Exit to Brooklyn. The conviction was overturned […]