Walking Paris with Henry Miller

The story of Jack Kahane, founder of The Obelisk Press, which published Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn, as well as ground-breaking works by D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and others has never been told in full. It is a treat then to discover that a new and thorough work on [...]

As these walking tours have developed I’ve tried several different mapping solutions with mixed success. The latest was to add embedded Google maps at the end of each post. These are convenient, but greatly slow down the loading of pages. So now I’m trying something new with Google maps. Using the recently added “My Maps” [...]

A new book explores the history of Le Select, one of Montparnasse's most prominent artistic cafés and a regular hangout for Henry Miller in the 1930's.

Barney Rosset, the man who overturned the obscenity laws banning publication of Henry Miller’s major writings in the US is championed in the new documentary, Obscene, which debuted in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the nineteen-sixties Rosset fought and won the right to publish the first legal American editions of Miller’s novels [...]