![]() ![]() Others hung out on tattered sofas, flipping through the works of Henry James. Poets in scarves sipped Fernet and writers in denim jackets drank cheap red wine. On a November night, about 100 devotees shoved past the town house door to attend a rowdy wake inside. Late in the autumn, as rumours swirled that the building was about to be sold, word went out that there would be one last gathering. Gradually, his salon became known as Beckett's, and its happenings included a debate about William Shakespeare's identity, a showing of the 1972 pornography classic Deep Throat and issue release parties for Dirty Magazine and the Mars Review of Books. ![]() Rosset was named after Samuel Beckett, a 20th-century literary giant who worked closely with his father, publishing maverick Barney Rosset. The host was Beckett Rosset, a 53-year-old writer with a rocky past who lives in a book-cluttered apartment upstairs with his 18-year-old tabby cat, Micio. "This place has given us a taste of an older New York we never saw," said Christian Cail, a jazz guitarist. A poster for 'Evergreen Review', the literary publication run by Barney Rosset in New York. ![]()
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