In 1970, two years after its American rebirth, Olympia Press gave proof of its ongoing vitality with the publication of the second Olympia Reader. This New Olympia Reader went much further in the same direction: it presented a collection of erotic writings of unprecedented scope, sophistication, and variety. It made the point that the erotic element is an immediately valuable and important ingredient in creative writing‹not a foreign, secondary, and suspect factor, as the supporters of censorship insisted. Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press and editor of this book, said his primary goal was to dismantle censorship; once the sexual revolution was well on its way, he tried to normalize the situation and help integrate the erotic side of life into creative writing. This volume includes an introduction and commentary by Maurice Girodias and works by Barry Malzberg, John Voigt, Jon Horn, Akbar del Piombo, Diane di Prima, Harriet Daimler, Clarence Major, Marcus Van Heller, William Burroughs III, and many others.