Pursuit
- ISBN-10
- 0714545384
- ISBN-13
- 9780714545387
- Series
- Pursuit
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 660
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-01
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Author
- John Calder
Description
"e;Publish and be damned"e;, Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues. Damned also for publishing such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr, as well as for bringing to public notice the abuses of the armies and security forces of colonial countries. He took on American authors who could not be published in the United States during the McCarthy witch-hunt. He exposed the atrocities of the Algerian and other African wars, and produced many books on British political, social and moral issues, which only a totally independent publisher could have done.Born into the most conservative of establishment families, John Calder has always gone his own way - seeking out literary genius and creating a greater awareness of the world we inhabit. His publishing programme contained a large proportion of the leading writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Luigi Pirandello, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Heinrich Boell and such British authors as Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Steven Berkoff and Ann Quin. Anecdotes abound in these memoirs about Bertrand Russell, Alger Hiss, Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, Jo Grimond and dozens of others whom the author encountered in his activities, both within and outside of publishing. This book is too outspoken to make many friends, but it will open eyes and upset apple carts. Never a saint, Calder is as frank about his own failings as of those of others.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Pursuit
By Gene HackmanThe Academy Award-winning actor and author of Payback at Morning Peak finds once-straitlaced officer Juliette Worth wrongly demoted after a hostage situation gone wrong and reassigned to investigating cold-case disappearances, a situation ...
-
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
By Laura CoatesIn exploring the tension between the idealism of the law and the reality of working within the parameters of our flawed legal system, Coates exposes the chasm between what is right and what is lawful"--Adapted from the book jacket.
-
Wife in Pursuit: 31 Daily Challenges for Loving Your Husband Well
By Selena FrederickLearn what it means to pursue your husband for the rest of your life. Wife In Pursuit is a 31-day challenge for women who desire to love their husbands fiercely and boldly.
-
The Ultimate Trivial Pursuit Question & Answer Book
By HasbroCollects over twenty-five years of trivia questions featured in the popular board game, providing questions and answers in the fields of geography, entertainment, history, arts & literature, science & nature, and sports & leisure.
-
Need for the Bike
By Paul FournelAn extended meditation on cycling as a practice of life, the book recalls a country doctor who will not anesthetize the young Fournel after he impales himself on a downtube shifter, speculates about the difference between animals that would ...
-
Bob Bondurant on Police and Pursuit Driving
By Bob Bondurant Edwin J. SanowRick Scuteri Bob Bondurant raced Corvettes in southern California in the late 1950s , and in 1963 joined the Carroll Shelby Ford Cobra team . In 1964 , Bondurant , and co - driver Dan Gurney , won the GT class in the 24 Hours of LeMans ...
-
The Pursuit: A Fox and O'Hare Novel
By Janet Evanovich, Lee GoldbergBut the kidnapper doesn't know that Nick has been secretly working for the FBI. Nick's partner, Special Agent Kate O'Hare, takes off in pursuit of the kidnappers.
-
Pursuit
By James Stewart ThayerA riveting thriller in the bestselling tradition of The Day of the Jackal, Pursuit is gripping . . . fast-moving . . . action-packed . . . one of the better World War II tales (Pittsburgh Press).
-
An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
By Joyce E. Chaplin(London, 1770), 9, facs. rpt. in Chapman J. Milling, ed., Colonial South Carolina: Two Contemporary Descriptions (Columbia, S.C., 1951), 119; Hilliard, “Tidewater Rice Culture,” in Gibson, ed., Settlement in North America, 105–109. 9.
-
The Pursuit
By Tel GanesanThe Pursuit is a manifesto about one man's mission to reunite the country and save democracy by re-envisioning the American Dream and the role entrepreneurship can play in people's pursuit of happiness.