Anais Nin

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.

On his nightly trek through the Place de Clichy in the period of 1932-1934, Henry Miller’s attention would have naturally been drawn to the massive Gaumont Palace. The sleek Art Deco cinema with seating for 6,000 was then the largest film venue in the world.

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.

This respectable office building at 338 rue Saint-Honore was once home to one of the more scandalous publishing houses of the twentieth century.

The American Express office at 11 rue Scribe has been serving tourists in Paris for more than one hundred years since its opening in 1900. Henry Miller made extensive use of these services throughout his years in Paris as the American Express grew to be strongly associated with his personal misery.

Sky Blue Press has announced the publication of a facsimile of Anaïs Nin’s 1939 novel, The Winter of Artifice. This is the original, uncensored Obelisk Press edition that has not been in print for over sixty years