This book changed my life. After I discovered it in a used book shop in Cincinnati in the early 1990's, it was my path to find new authors I would not have been exposed to in those pre-internet times.
I began reading articles, excerpts, sections, and complete portions of this book at the age of ten-eleven. It's got a incredible assortment of writing---essay, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and review. I've used it as a reference to find authors, works, and anthologies of literature throughout my life.
It's a ten-year anthology of America's leading literary magazine, Hardcover– 1968, By Barney Rosset (editor), Grove Press, 778 pages.