17th c. Scandal: 14 Yr Old Girl Falls for Baron, Writes Rare Tell-All April 1, 2010

The modern world’s embarrassing, cringe-worthy, candid memoir-as-novel that dumps upon an ex-lover/spouse is nothing new. In 1931, Jack Kahane, a writer of novels that nobody read, launched Obelisk Press. In a few years the imprint would gain international notoriety for publishing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. In the interim, it stayed afloat with racy fluff such as Daffodil by Cecil Barr (Kahane’s pseudonym), one of the imprint’s best-selling titles. But before Kahane got Obelisk Press…