Barney Rosset Dies, Age 89

Samuel Beckett and Barney Rosset via Zuma World

Via NPR:

Barney Rosset gave American readers their first taste of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, as well as uncensored classics by Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence. To do that, Rosset fought literally hundreds of court cases and was largely responsible for breaking down U.S. obscenity laws in the 1950s and '60s.

And here's the NYT obit