Publisher Richard Seaver died earlier this week.If you have ever read a book(s) in English by William Burroughs, Alex Trocchi, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby, The Marquis de Sade, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco or Samuel Beckett etc. or 'The Story of 'O" (which he translated into English) it was due to this man.
'NY Times' obituary here.
PEN obit here.
'The Terror of Words' here. (Which details his connection to Alex Trocchi's early 1950's French magazine 'Merlin' and how Samuel Beckett was published in English for the first time.)
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