Fire up the Presses!
Let me direct your attention to a great post at “illimitable reality wreck” that should be of interest to every Henry Miller fan and scholar. RELEASE THE MILLER EPHEMERA! lays bare the shameful neglect mainstream publishers have paid to the groaning bulk of Miller’s obscure writings. A vast treasure trove of newspaper and magazine articles written by Miller are just waiting for an enterprising publisher to bundle up and make available to the public. Many of these pieces haven’t seen the light of day for more than sixty years! To be sure, a handful of the many items listed in Vintin’s article have been occasionally republished by commendable small presses, but their editions appear in such tiny numbers and at such high prices that they have never become known to a general audience.
I would love to get my hands on the articles about specific Paris locales that Miller published under Alfred Perlès’ name in The Chicago Tribune. And I’ll just add to Vintin’s impressive list of neglected small articles a couple of Miller’s larger works which have inexplicably fallen out of print: Hamlet (a book written in the form of a correspondence between Miller and Michael Frankel), and Remember to Remember (volume 2 of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare).
2 comments on "Fire up the Presses!"
Hmm…how can we get our hands on these?
Let’s you, me, and Randy publish these ourselves.
Or, more seriously, let’s talk to the Nexus people about this.
Yeah, that would be a fun project Eric.
Most of this stuff is probably tucked away in either the UCLA Miller archives or the Emil Schnellock collection at The Henry Miller Library. Several other institutions have interesting collections of Miller ephemera:
University of Victoria
New York Public Library
Southern Illinois University
I think one or two of the articles Miller wrote under Perles’ byline at the Tribune were published in Left Bank Revisited.
Not sure who holds the publication rights to this stuff, but I assume that would be Miller’s estate. Would need a good bit of editorial work to put the pieces in context. The notes that accompany the Miller articles in Nexus tend to be excellent.
