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Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press
When an excerpt from John de St. Jorre's Venus Bound, unmasking the pseudonymous author of Story of O, appeared in The New Yorker - thus solving a forty-year-old literary mystery - it made worldwide news. In its entirety, Venus Bound recounts the astonishing but true story of the flamboyant rogue publisher Maurice Girodias, whose Paris-based Olympia Press gave birth to a c...more
Hardcover, 358 pages
Published
May 31st 1998
by Random House
(first published 1994)
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This is the book that made me said 'yes' to start my own publishing. Here is the story of Maurice Girodias and his press Olympia. He took a lot of authors out to cocktail lunches, lost a lot of money, always dressed well, had a love for both pornography and high art - really, a man I can truly admire. Maurice Girodias is my patron saint!
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Enjoyed the portraits of the universe of little and well-known literary characters who walked through the doors of Olympia, and the stories behind the books that have earned Olympia Press and Girodias places in literary history.
Good to be reminded that the romance of publishing and writing is sustained by ordinary people -- writers, publishers and sellers who are often cliquish, ungrateful and unpleasant and all driven by their love for good writing :)
In some parts St. ...more
Good to be reminded that the romance of publishing and writing is sustained by ordinary people -- writers, publishers and sellers who are often cliquish, ungrateful and unpleasant and all driven by their love for good writing :)
In some parts St. ...more
Informative but still engaging. I'd actually been ignorant of the great number of important books published by the Olympia Press. Interesting to see that Maurice had the dichotomy of a huge drive to succeed, and a huge need to undermine his own efforts. It all furthered my desire to own my own press someday.
Read for avant-garde authors class. Read 1/2 of it, couldn't finish the rest. 2 stars are for the chapter on Anais Nin and Henry Miller.
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