From our vantage point, this question is trite and over-used, despite its alliterative qualities. (Furthermore, why does it have to be a binary choice?)

Nonetheless, a recent article in Spectator entitled, well, “Henry Miller: Pornographer or Prophet?” about a new book by John Burnside, convincingly argues that Miller “shouldn’t be remembered only for smut. He belongs in the radical tradition of great American seers.”

Amen, brother!!!

Read the whole thing!

(a first installment in our series "Who Are These People.")

Bern Porter was integral to the development of the cathode-ray tube for television. He helped in the design of NASA’s Saturn V Rocket. And, for good measure, he published The Happy Rock: A Book about Henry Miller in 1945, when the writer was still unknown (and banned!) in the US.

His name is Bern Porter and he is one fascinating fellow! Check out his amazing work via the MoMA here. 

You may remember having seen the portrait of Bern Porter by Ed Holcomb. (Ed Holcomb was another one of Henry's friends and it was Ed who, when visiting Henry a short time before he died at a time when Henry was nearly deaf and blind in one eye and very frail and thin asked Ed, "What is the most exciting thing that has happened to you since I last saw you!"