The Olympia Press was a notorious Parisian publishing house that used a legal loophole to mass-produce cheap, pseudonymous English erotica for tourists in the 1950s. Olympia Press was owned by Maurice Girodias, a chaotic businessman who had  an eye for avant-garde masterpieces like  Lolita  but all too often took advantage of his authors. I’ll give you some background about Nabokov and a few others who tangled with Girodias, then focus on two stories: a tragedy about Girodias and the 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol; and a decades-long legal blood feud with author J.P. Donleavy over  The Ginger…