Henry Miller

On a snowy day in February 1930, Henry Miller boarded a ship in the New York Harbor and set sail for London—the first stop on a journey that eventually led him to a new life in Paris where he began writing the novels that made him famous.

Walter Lowenfels, the Jabberwhorl Cronstadt of Black Spring, was one of Miller's earliest supporters in Paris. In an impressive collection of audio recordings hosted on the University of Pennsylvania web site, Lowenfels recalls his relationship with Miller in the 1930's.

While perusing the online photo collection of the French Ministry of Culture, I stumbled upon a real gem: A set of ten photos of Le Dôme café taken in the winter of 1931-32. The pictures provide a unique glimpse of the café as Henry Miller would have known it.

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...

Let's all raise a glass to the fine folks at Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal, whose newly minted volume 6 is now available to order!

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.