Misc

PBA Galleries of San Francisco has announced a major auction of Henry Miller manuscripts and rare documents from the library of Roger Wagner, to be held on March 18, 2010. The stars of the show are Miller's Paris Notebooks, which are expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000.

Walter Lowenfels, the Jabberwhorl Cronstadt of Black Spring, was one of Miller's earliest supporters in Paris. In an impressive collection of audio recordings hosted on the University of Pennsylvania web site, Lowenfels recalls his relationship with Miller in the 1930's.

While perusing the online photo collection of the French Ministry of Culture, I stumbled upon a real gem: A set of ten photos of Le Dôme café taken in the winter of 1931-32. The pictures provide a unique glimpse of the café as Henry Miller would have known it.

Let's all raise a glass to the fine folks at Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal, whose newly minted volume 6 is now available to order!

Eve Adams, a peripatetic bookseller in Montparnasse who had been deported from America, helped Henry Miller promote Tropic of Cancer to a general audience on the terrasses of popular expatriate cafes.

In 1930, with the help of a pair of Paris guidebooks, Henry Miller greatly broadened his knowledge of his adopted city and its history.