Table of Contents
Foreword 11
1 An Irish Ancestry: From Ould Sod to the New Land 13
2 Progressive Educations: Experimental Schools and Falling in Love 25
3 Off to College, Off to War 33
4 China: The Forgotten Theater 49
5 "The Liberators": Shanghai and the Return Home 63
6 Joan Mitchell: The Beginning 77
7 Partings and Beginnings: Joan, the Hamptons, and Early Grove 85
8 Samuel Beckett 109
9 Grove Theater: Harold Pinter and Other Playwrights 141
10 Into the Fray: Lady Chatterley's Lover 147
11 A Return to Film: Film, I Am Curious (Yellow) and Other Celluloid Adventures 167
12 Profiles in Censorship: Henry Miller and Tropic of Cancer 179
13 Maurice Girodias 207
14 The Beats and Naked Lunch 219
15 Revolutionaries: Evergreen, Che Guevara, and the Grove Bombing 239
16 Attack from Within, Attack from Without 249
17 My Tom Sawyer: Kenzaburo Oe 267
18 Eleuthéria 281
19 A Nightmare in the Stone Forest 289
End Notes 299
Acknowledgements 307
Appendices 309
Index 325