In the epilogue of his latest book, Wolff, a
Sports Illustrated writer for 36 years and the author or editor of nine books, is musing on his newly realized dual citizenship. He believes that holding a passport to both Germany and America is a symbolic way of urging the best of each to regard the other as an example. For Wolff, that s a hard-earned revelation. In 2017, he spent a year in Berlin with his wife and two children to research his family history. In doing so, he unraveled family mysteries spanning two continents, three generations and several decades of world history.
Fred Jordan, Publisher of Taboo-Breaking Books, Dies at 95
At Grove Press, he and Barney Rosset challenged censors as they popularized D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others.
Fred Jordan, standing, with Barney Rosset at the Grove Press office in 1969. Beginning as business manager, Mr. Jordan formed a long collaboration with Mr. Rosset, expanding into editing and managing the company’s defenses against censorshipCredit.Bob Adelman
May 2, 2021, 11:14 a.m. ET
Fred Jordan, the publishing partner of Barney Rosset, whose groundbreaking Grove Press and Evergreen Review fended off government censors to introduce avant-garde authors who inspired the counterculture of the 1960s, died on April 19 in Brooklyn. He was 95.
Fred Jordan, Former Grove Press Editor and Pantheon Publisher, Dies at 95 By John Maher | Apr 28, 2021
Fred Jordan, an influential longtime editor at Grove Press for three decades and, later, publisher of Pantheon Books, died on April 19. He was 95.
The Viennese-born Jordan, né Alfred Rotblatt, emigrated to the United States in 1949 after surviving the Holocaust. After working as a journalist, in 1953, Jordan began a long and storied publishing career with a one-man publisher of esoterica, Falcon s Wing Press. In 1956, he joined Grove Press, then comprised of just three people including its owner and publisher, Barney Rosset.
According to Grove Atlantic, Rosset and Jordan reached a verbal agreement followed by thirty years of close collaboration without clearly defined roles, and never with a contract. Rosset oversaw the finances and the company s creative direction and Jordan brought the steady hand that built the operations and kept the company on c
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I became aware of Kevin Brockmeier’s work back in 2008 when Robert Shearman, in an interview with Eric Forbes, included Brockmeier in a list of writers “who play with the short story, squeeze as much out of it as they can.” Sadly, I’ve only now gotten around to reading Brockmeier’s short fiction, picking up his latest collection
The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. The book is the literary equivalent of a concept album, gathering together 100 ghostly vignettes and then breaking them up into 11 categories including, “Ghosts and Memory”, “Ghosts and Nature”, “Ghosts and Speculation”, and “Ghosts and Love and Friendship”. There’s even a Concordance at the back of the collection that provides an intricate spiderweb of links between each vignette. Given the length of these stories – none longer than five hundred words – and the singular nature of the topic, if I weren’t reviewing