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One week after his arrival in Paris in March of 1930, Henry Miller was making a circuitous exploration of his new city when he found himself drawn to a window display at the Honoré Champion bookstore on the Quai Malaquai...

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

A bit of a Miller mystery is afoot over at Bibliophemera where Chuck Whiting has gotten hold of a set of correspondence between Miller and an Ohio bookseller named Paul North Jr.

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.

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

Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press by Neil Pearson has recently been published.