Big Sur under threat as Calif. fire edges closer Jun 27, 2008
Fire crews on Thursday beat back flames that threatened a small roadside library named after "Tropic of Cancer" author Henry Miller, who lived in Big Sur for years. Down the road, crews maintained fire lines and doused flames near the wooden cabins of Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, which had been evacuated Sunday morning. (Erie Times-News, PA)
The marrying kind Jun 21, 2008
"Not long after my parents leave, shaadi.com serves up someone else. On his profile, Sanjeev cites Henry Miller, Norman Mailer and PG Wodehouse as his favourite authors and describes himself as a wizard at crosswords and Scrabble. He simply calls one day and asks me out on the Saturday. While preamble can be titillating, forthrightness is a never-fail virtue.Over the phone, I learn that he works in IT and lives in Gurgaon, and that he's from Gorakhpur. I pull out my map of India and locate the... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Daily Break Jun 18, 2008
- Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller: Upon its U.S. release, this book became the subject of a high-profile obscenity trial, so you know it's worth at least a quick look. - Tropic of Capricorn, by Henry Miller: A sequel, which - true to its name - falls several degrees below the original. (Daily Iowan, IA)
'Métro Stop Paris' by Gregor Dallas and 'The Crowd Sounds Happy' by Nicholas Dawidoff Jun 4, 2008
"You might know every street in Paris," observed Henry Miller, one of the city's best-known expatriates, "and not know Paris." ... s Nin's decision to abort the child she conceived while having affairs with both Henry Miller and the German psychoanalyst Otto Rank, who had moved to Paris after breaking with Freud. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Enduring elk May 28, 2008
Henry Miller, a cattleman, started working to save the elk in 1874. A Tule Elk Preserve was started near Bakersfield, in 1932. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
A family business May 24, 2008
"That hasn't always been the experience of literary couples. Ana s Nin wrote of her relationship with Henry Miller, "At the core of us is a writer, not a human being. " Malcolm Bradbury once advised a young woman hoping to marry a novelist that writers make terrible marriage material, the successful ones more riven than most by "jealous combativeness, paranoia and profound self-love". At least one literary agent refuses to take on partners of existing clients, to avoid "a position where you're... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Book World: 'Bright Shiny Morning' May 21, 2008
I also love Henry Miller, Hemingway, Baudelaire, Rimbuad, Kerouac, Bukowski, Norman Mailer, Bret Easton Ellis ... To me, AMLP and MFL were reminiscent of Henry Miller's autobiographical style, where plot lines were based in fact and situations were embellished, either for dramatic effect or his own satisfaction. (Washington Post)
Dear Editor: Scare tactics... May 6, 2008
Henry Miller wrote on May 2, 2008 12:47 PM:" Mike Irwins TV ad is over the top. Everybody in Cleburne County likes and respects him? He also claims hes done a great job! Why run just for District Judge? Why not for President? Im sure hes wonderful but gosh to claim that for yourself is something the Duke (John Wayne) wouldnt do. Its not right to say that about yourself. If a third party witness said it then it would be easier to listen to. Mike needs an editor, some humility and modesty would be... (Heber Springs Sun-Times, AR)
Truly, madly, deeply Apr 19, 2008
In America he wrote pornography with Ana s Nin and Henry Miller. His poems, read on the BBC Third Programme, were excoriated for obscenity, and he never lost the capacity to cause outrage. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Still Feeding the World Apr 5, 2008
Americans have eaten well over a trillion servings of food containing genetically engineered ingredients, without a single instance of harm to people or habitats, according to biotech specialist Henry Miller whereas organic spinach sickened and killed a number of people in 2007. Biotechnology actually frees poor farmers from the shackles of Natures destructive forces. (Townhall.com)
VH1 and Sundance Channel to Air Original Four-Part Documentary Series From Perry Films, 'Sex: The Revolution' Premiering on VH1, Monday, May 12 - Thursday, May 15 at 10pm* Each Night Mar 25, 2008
On college campuses, students boldly claim their rights to free speech, including the dirty words of D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller. As hippies take to the streets of San Francisco's Haight Asbury district, the repression of the 1950s seem like a distant memory. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
post a comment » Mar 5, 2008
Didn t Henry Miller and many other writer make up many details of their lives they published as true. I don t get the backlash at all. (International Herald Tribune)
In the beginning Feb 23, 2008
I stole six stories from Boccaccio (just as he stole stories from his sources) and rewrote them (my favourite is the one supposedly about Henry Miller). I used stories from the LA Times that I found in the daily papers between March 24 and April 2. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Familiar place of business Feb 18, 2008
Mr. Jolles' older cousin, Henry Miller, a lawyer in New Orleans, often visited during the many family gatherings and trips they made on summer breaks. Mr. Miller says his cousin was a happy child. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Bridge repairs close a stretch of Lander Jan 23, 2008
It also is closed to northbound traffic at Henry Miller Road north of Los Banos ... The southern barricade at Henry Miller Road is a "soft closure," so local residents can use the road to get to their homes and so people can access the duck-hunting wetlands and wildlife refuges in the area. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Books of the San Joaquin Valley Dec 23, 2007
"The Cattle King," by Edward Treadwell (1931): The story of German immigrant Henry Miller, whose massive operations helped set the stage for the large-scale farming that dominates the Valley today. "The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters," by Gerald Haslam (1994): This book devotes 19 essays to the Valley's landscape, literature and life. (Fresno Bee)
Amazon says it bought 2m Rowling book Dec 15, 2007
" Even before establishing her charity, JK Rowling had done the world a rare and immeasurably valuable service, enlarging forever our concept of the way books can touch people - and in particular children - in modern times, said Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and chief executive whose company is responsible for a significant proportion of the 400 million copies sold of Rowling's Harry Potter series. The company bought the book as a thank you for everything JK Rowling has done for literature, and... (Times Online)
AOL puts heat on alleged Sunshine State spammers Dec 14, 2007
-based , as well as Charles Henry Miller Jr. and Heidi Miller. According to AOL, the Millers are a married couple residing in Winter Garden, while Connor resides in Longwood, Fla. (Yahoo News -- AOL & Time Warner)
Lily Allen to judge Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008 Dec 13, 2007
" The prize was set up in 1996 to promote women s fiction and can be entered by any woman writing in English, regardless of her nationality or age. Previous winners include; Zadie Smith for On Beauty, Lionel Shriver for We Need to Talk About Kevin and Kate Grenville for The Idea of Perfection. The shortlist to the 30,000 prize will be released in April and the winner announced at a ceremony in June. Is that because her entire brand and self-depiction in her videos is a load of fiction? Poor... (Times Online)
I am insecure about sex Dec 7, 2007
Bedding women like a voracious Henry Miller will only secure some half-phone numbers and bragging rights to cross-eyed drunkards. Once the women's stories are told, their warm bodies will be long gone. (Globe and Mail)
Chain of experience Dec 7, 2007
rick harsch wrote on Dec 6, 2007 3:54 PM:" Which is the child of our culture, Welch or M., Dan? Does our culture not generally combine unprecedented rapacity with a singular vision of itself as a shining moral example for the rest of the world? Does it not exalt the individualism of Dirty Harry and such while raining bescumberance upon peaceniks? Allen Ginsburg wrote Plutonium Ode and Phillip Glass put it to music, an example of two rejectors of authority collaborating and creating something... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Absinthe makes U.S. debut Dec 5, 2007
I d read about it in Henry Miller and Anais Nin, and I was curious, Stephanie Palmer, who works in software sales, said while sipping Kubler absinthe on the night of its sponsored debut in a San Francisco bar. It has this mystique all the stories about wormwood. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Book-banning always backfires Dec 2, 2007
How many young North Americans worked their way through Henry Miller s Tropic of Cancer in the 1960s only because the book was banned from publication on this side of the Atlantic for decades after its 1934 publication in France. No, there s nothing like banning a book to ensure it gets read or that at least parts of it do. (St. John's Telegram)
Obituary: DS Savage Nov 21, 2007
Articles for the US pacifist quarterly The Phoenix led to him becoming its European editor, taking over from Henry Miller. Wartime publication included Horizon, Socialist Review and George Woodcock's radical journal Now. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Gardening Australia Nov 17, 2007
When the same age as ABC gardening presenter Peter Cundall, American author Henry Miller wrote that he prized above all else a sense of wonder and was more cheerful at 80 than he had been as a young man. Similarly enthused, Cundall marvels weekly at "remarkable plants and absolutely unbelievable gardens", such as a property in tonight's episode that is 450 metres above sea level on Mount Wellington in southern Tasmania - one of the coldest and highest in Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Norman Mailer is buried in Provincetown, a place he came to love Nov 14, 2007
His books ranged from "The Naked and the Dead," published when he was 25, to volumes on Marilyn Monroe, the writer Henry Miller, and the condemned killer Gary Gilmore. He won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with "The Executioner's Song," about Gilmore, and a Pulitzer for nonfiction for "The Armies of the Night," his account of the march on the Pentagon in 1967. (Boston Globe)
Why we should weep for Mailer Nov 14, 2007
In 1971, after Gore Vidal wrote "there has been from Henry Miller to Norman Mailer to Charles Manson a logical progression", Mailer head-butted Vidal. He head-butted Truman Capote too. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
TAC's 2002 interview with Norman Mailer Nov 13, 2007
AC: I would put Henry Miller there with them. NM: Yes, Henry Miller I would put there. (The American Conservative)
Pulitzer-winning author Norman Mailer dies at 84 Nov 11, 2007
Vidal then entered the fray with an article in the New York Review of Books, finding "a logical progression" from Henry Miller to Mailer to Charles Manson. The two authors later traded insults on ABC television's "Dick Cavett Show." Then, at a 1977 Manhattan dinner party, Mailer threw his scotch whiskey in Vidal's face, butted him with his head and punched him in the mouth. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Streetwise scribeThe provocative life of late US novelist Norman Mailer Nov 11, 2007
In 1971, he head-butted his fellow writer Gore Vidal before a television chat-show after Vidal had written that "there has been from Henry Miller to Norman Mailer to Charles Manson a logical progression". Avoid booze, pot, too much sex, too much failure in one's private life. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Linda Hall on Katha Pollitt Oct 25, 2007
Pollitt scarcely could blame people for being curious: she herself admits in this book that she "devoured" Henry Miller after reading Kate Millett's denunciation of him in Sexual Politics. But I know for a fact that Bentley had no influence and I think that those of us who are reading and rereading these essays are doing so for precisely the opposite reason that Pollitt, just out of college, took a job proofreading pornography. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Quartet of stories' investigation of love was magical once Oct 13, 2007
This is not Henry Miller or D.H. Lawrence writing, but an author interested in the psychology of love ... I have followed Durrell in his books around the Mediterranean Sea and even to Paris where he was a friend of Henry Miller. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Handling of obscenity cases disputed Oct 9, 2007
Specifically, it raises a question of whether increasing public acceptance has shifted the legal standard of obscenity -- once aimed at the works of such authors as James Joyce, Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs -- so that only the most extreme margins of porn can be stopped. The conservative groups who pushed for the initiative say no, and complain that it is virtually pointless to go after fringe figures whose material does not have the societal impact of big commercial productions. (Los Angeles Times)
Yes, San Francisco is in the land of cotton subsidies Sep 24, 2007
At last count, the largest California recipient of federal farm subsidies is the city's Constance Bowles Peabody, 88, a wealthy heiress of pioneer California cattle baron Henry Miller. Peabody and her now-deceased brother George "Corky" Bowles, collected $2. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
* Open road still drives American spirit Sep 19, 2007
In the longitudes ahead of me between the inland and coastal plains were red mesa deserts, geyser basins, the US' highest peaks, lava flows, virgin forest and gigantic sand dunes, a land of strange and colossal shapes where "Nature has gone gaga and dada," as Henry Miller said in his vituperative road book, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. It is here that the US road comes into its own as a place of anonymity and freedom in a vastness, astounding natural spectacles constantly passing your window. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Stranger than fiction Sep 18, 2007
Through the course of our hour-long conversation, he compares himself variously to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Daniel Defoe, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Henry Miller and William Burroughs. He likes to make facile puns - 'They call it the system; I call it the shitstem' - delivering them with a half-smile, then repeating them to ensure the joke has registered. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Publishers lock horns over rights to Beckett work Sep 2, 2007
Aside from being the first to publish Beckett's prose work in this country and at one point holding the rights in the work of 19 Nobel Laureates, Calder Publications also brought to the attention of British readers the work of Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Franz Kafka, Marguerite Duras and Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote Last Exit to Brooklyn. Calder said he would be looking for a company whose values suited such an important cultural inheritance. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
'Lust' too lusty for NC-17? Aug 25, 2007
Universal's 1990 drama "Henry " which chronicled French writer Anais Nin's erotic relationship with American scribe Henry Miller and his wife, June, was the first film to be released with an NC-17 after years of debate over the X rating's boxoffice stigma. The studio released the 2005 NC-17 docu "Inside Deep Throat" and allowed its specialty division October Films to release Trey Parker's 1998 NC-17 porn spoof "Orgazmo.". (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Come together Aug 18, 2007
The Germans could film Portnoy's Complaint, The Dutch could murder Ana s Nin and Henry Miller better than Phil Kaufman ever did. And think what an enterprising Canadian might do with William Burroughs or JG Ballard (oh. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Bloodless Bullfights Aug 12, 2007
During Gustine's festa (see below), traditional food vendors sell linguica sandwiches, tremocos (boiled lupino beans) and grilled sardines brushed with hot malagueta pepper-infused butter, in Henry Miller Park ... Saturday festivities, beginning at 10 a.m., include an ox-drawn cart parade, folk entertainment at Henry Miller Park, bullfights at the Praa de Touros and a ritual feast at Our Lady Of Miracles Church (on Linden Avenue); Sunday events start at 10:30 a.m. Free. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
My 60 years in Harold's gang Jul 12, 2007
He was always bring new authors to the table: Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, John Dos Passos. He would drag us, protesting, to avant-garde films: Un Chien Andalou, L'Age d'Or, Le Sang d'un Po;te - Bu;uel, Dal;, Cocteau. (Guardian Unlimited)
Travel hassles, delays leave one longing for glory days of air travel Jul 8, 2007
Whichever it was, Henry Miller designs matched. The crew, to round out the Braniff experience, dressed in color-coordinated, space age uniforms. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Henry Miller: Colossus of Maroussi Jul 2, 2007
In The Colossus of Maroussi Henry Miller, author of erotic books like Tropic of Cancer, visits Greece and writes one of the best travel books about the country. Edmund Wilson said that Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi was 'unlike anything else ever written about Greece ... Yes, Henry Miller is good on Greece. (Suite101.com)
Temper sweet fantasy with a dose of reality Jun 29, 2007
From Thursday's Globe and Mail. June 28, 2007 at 9:31 AM EDT. (Globe and Mail)
A Changing Landscape Jun 18, 2007
In May, Los Banos threw a communitywide free barbecue to celebrate its 100thanniversary, renewing a tradition started by founder Henry Miller. The land baron also established Gustine, which will gussy up for its centennial in July. (Modesto Bee, CA)
What are you reading? Jun 17, 2007
"Tropic of Cancer," by Henry Miller. Banned at the time of publication, for crude language and description, "Tropic of Cancer," has lost much of its shock effect with the shift in cultural norms but proves a definite page turner and must read according to Bischoff. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Printing books online: an author you can't refuse Jun 10, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller are among the world's most respected authors, but for a while they had a hard time finding a publisher ... Now, a young Henry Miller could use new Internet companies like Blurb. (Scientific American)
Vail Ranch to open to public Saturday Jun 8, 2007
Henry Miller, of the Temecula Valley Museum, said opening the ranch property to the community is "one of the biggest deals in the community.". "This is a great showcase for all the work being done at the Vail Ranch," Miller said. (North County Times)
To India and back ... May 29, 2007
PRINCETON One s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things, said the American writer and painter Henry Miller. Evan Holschbach, 20, of Princeton and Derek Dickinson, 20, of Wyanet, recently returned to Bureau County from a two-and-one-half-month stay in India. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
A new chapter in theme parks? May 26, 2007
You'll need your ID at Henry Miller World, and plan on spending weeks at a time at Tolstoy World. You'd best be wary of Jean Paul Sartre World. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Henry Miller's own geometry of love Apr 23, 2007
" In those ancient days of 1961, before the Summer of Love, a bookseller in San Anselmo was busted for selling "Tropic of Cancer," Henry Miller's rowdy romance about his bohemian days and nights in Paris. The publisher, Barney Rosset of Grove Press, ferocious and money disregarding, crisscrossed the United States to do battle with lubricious post office officials and smarmy district attorneys. A theologian and a professor at Mills College (serendipitously named Dr. Come and Dr. Wendt) testified... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Where are the cycle path films? Apr 19, 2007
From HG Wells to Henry Miller, cycling has produced some great writing - although it must be admitted that it has also produced plenty of dross, from HG Wells to Henry Miller. The bike has inspired numerous artists, too: Marcel Duchamp, Fernand L;ger and Joseph Beuys, to name but a few who have incorporated or represented the bicycle in their work. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
'You Don't Love Me Yet' Apr 14, 2007
He is a mix between the Marquis de Sade, Al Goldstein and Henry Miller. Any debaucherous, yet erudite, soul will enjoy him and overall, the book, too. (Daily Collegian, PA)
1) Cricket World Cup: England v Bangladesh Apr 12, 2007
Pietersen 10 c sub (Farhad) b Razzaq (23rd over: England 78-4) Novelist, travel writer and literary great Henry Miller alive, well and squandering his time on OBO: "England's world cup campaign limps on... At least with England's football team once they lose in a tournament that's it, they're out. The cricket seem to have the ability to get beat by all the best teams and still have a chance of going through!!! Incredible". Colly biffs a four over mid-wicket, runs a single and puts KP on strike. (Guardian Unlimited)
Ten classic coastal drives Apr 7, 2007
The hundreds of miles of PCH traverse some of Californias most spectacular terrain, from storied surf spots in the south to the norths more rugged coastal treasures, like Big Sur, whose raw, redwood-forest beauty lured writers like Jack Keroauc and Henry Miller. The occasional straightaways on a highway like Californias Route 1 can allow the motorist to open up the throttle and combine beauty with speed. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms Apr 1, 2007
"Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic," said Henry Miller, a fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. "A much higher fraction of passengers from the cheaper decks were lost. We'll see the same phenomenon with global warming.". (International Herald Tribune)
Poor left in lurch if world overheats Apr 1, 2007
"Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic," said Henry Miller, a fellow with the Hoover Institution. "A much higher fraction of passengers from the cheaper decks were lost. We'll see the same phenomenon with global warming.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Davis admits book should not have been on TISD list Mar 28, 2007
After addressing Terrell ISD's plan to ensure that students are only given access to age-appropriate literature for future school assignments, Superintendent Walt Davis acknowledged during Monday night's school board meeting that the incident involving Terrell High School student Jenniffer Reed's exposure to Henry Miller's highly explicit ropic of Cancer should never have happened ... y daughter has English sixth period and by the time she got a chance to select an author, her choices were slim,... (Terrell Tribune, TX)
The rent man cometh Mar 5, 2007
Aficionados of avant-garde literature are not having a good week, what with the news that the 275-year-old London Magazine is to have its Arts Council funding withdrawn, and with the announcement that John Calder, veteran publisher of Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr, is looking for a buyer for both his publishing house and his tiny bookshop in the Cut in Waterloo ... It was signed Henry Miller. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
History-Making Syndicated TV Special 'David Sheehan's Academy Awards Movie Magic' Breaks New Ground with Studio Ad Buyers Feb 28, 2007
His magazine writing for Esquire, Playboy, Mademoiselle, and Los Angeles Magazine included rare interviews with "Tropic of Capricorn" author Henry Miller, mental health pioneer Abraham Maslow, Gestalt Therapy founder Fritz Perls, and Zen interpreter Alan Watts ... The book's editor was "Tropic of Capricorn" author Henry Miller. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Parents Go Coastal Feb 25, 2007
" feeling back. If you go Getting there Using Highway 17 to connect to Highway 1, the Tickle Pink Inn is about a two-hour drive south of San Francisco; add another half-hour for Deetjen's Big Sur Inn. Where to stay The Tickle Pink Inn, 155 Highland Drive, Carmel. (831) 624-1244, . 35 rooms and suites, plus the two-bedroom Senator's Cottage. $249-$549 a night; 20 percent discount December-March (excluding weekends, special events and holidays). Two-night minimum on weekends. Where to eat... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Blue Ceiling dance Feb 13, 2007
In 2004, Lucy tackled a full-length work that draws on Henry Miller s 1934 cult classic Tropic of Cancer (Unexpurgated). Dance artist Lucy Rupert has a Masters degree in European History and is also trained in visual arts and classical music. (Suite101.com)
Weekend Window: Big Sur, Calif. Feb 5, 2007
Author Henry Miller called it "nature smiling at herself in the mirror of eternity.". "The interaction between the ocean and the land here is absolutely unique from just about any place in the world," said John Bradford, district ranger at the Los Padres National Forest. (ABC News)
Sports Mailbag Feb 3, 2007
HENRY MILLER III, Ross. Letters should be addressed to Sports Mailbag, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 34 Blvd. of the Allies, Pittsburgh PA 15222. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Mallard Filmore comic strip draws complaints Jan 18, 2007
" Published: January 12, 2007 CorrectionCharlie Hunsicker is director of Manatee County's Conservation Lands Management department. A story in Thursday's Herald-Tribune misstated his job title. Published: January 11, 2007 Correction:The telephone number to call for information about events at Michael's on East in Sarasota is 366-0007. An incorrect number appeared in Wednesday's Herald-Tribune. Published: January 9, 2007 CorrectionsStanley Chichester's B-17 was shot down Oct. 14, 1943, on a... (Herald-Tribune)
