Elsewhere
The Ghost of Henry Miller
Here in Greece, gods and heroes walked among us. And one from my pantheon, Henry Miller, came to this extraordinary country in the first years of World War II. He stayed on Corfu with his friend, the writer Lawrence Durrell. Their visits to monuments and ruins were empty and silent. No tourists during a war.
Life with Richard Osborn
In the winter of 1930, six months into his first year in Paris, Henry Miller moved in with Richard Galen Osborn, The “Fillmore” of Tropic of Cancer to his flat on rue Auguste Bartholdi…
London Transfer
On a snowy day in February 1930, Henry Miller boarded a ship in the New York Harbor and set sail for London—the first stop on a journey that eventually led him to a new life in Paris where he began writing the novels that made him famous.
Rue Henry Miller
Some comments on my Espace Henry Miller post have lamented that there is no street in Paris named after Henry Miller. Well, after a bit of searching, I discovered that there is such a street after all.
Greenwich Village Miscellania
I recently had a few hours to kill in New York City before heading out to the airport, so I decided to snap some photos of Henry Miller sites around Greenwich Village.
Louveciennes
Louveciennes is a quiet residential town about thirty minutes away from Paris by train which was established by the Romans in the fourth century. Anaïs Nin and her husband Hugh arrived here in 1931, moving into a home that had once belonged to the estate of Madame DuBarry …
