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.
