RIP Barney Rosset

According to this post from GalleyCat:

The great publisher Barney Rosset has passed away. Rosset bought Grove Press in the 1950s, championing the work of countless writers, including: Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm X, Pablo Neruda, Kenzaburo Oe, Kathy Acker, and David Mamet.

Make the jump to read Rosset's account of his first encounter with Henry Miller's writing.