Henry goes to Greece, plus Philip Glass, Puppets, Febreze, and more!
Henry goes to Greece, plus Philip Glass, Puppets, Febreze, and more!

Hey there!
So last night we were swatting away flies and reading Marshall B. Rosenberg's landmark Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (second edition; "Over 1,000,000 copies sold for one simple reason: It Works!") when it occurred to us: "Golly...the Digest is always about us."

By "us" we mean, of course, the Library, Henry, Big Sur, etc. But what about you? After all, you're paying $2 a month—which may possibly not seem like much, but it goes along way for us!—to read the thing. What do you like about it? What don't you like? What do you want to see more of?

If you have answers to these and other questions — including "What's up with Marshall Rosenberg and the puppets?" (left) — send 'em to magnus@henrymiller.org.

And if the Digest is 100% airtight-without-a-doubt-perfect-beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt — or not! — why not ask your friend(s) to join up? They can do so here!  Off we go!
From the NYT: "In Crete, Miller Found His Muse Amid the Ruins"
It's always nice when major publications like the Times give Henry some love.
This one is no exception — an illuminating travelogue of a writer's experience in Greece, juxtaposed with Henry's reflections from his seminal book The Colossus of Maroussi, dubbed by Pico Iyer as one of the "five greatest travel books of all time."
As the Times piece notes — read the whole thing here! — Henry went to Greece as the Nazis bore down on Paris, taking his first real vacation, alone, at 48, to visit the English novelist Lawrence Durrell on the Greek island of Corfu.
Indeed, Miller himself considered Colossus to be his best work.
Why, there's Henry, to the right, Henry Miller and ‘the Colossus’ himself, George Katsimbalis, in Greece, circa 1939!
Magnus discusses Miller and Big Sur on the "Soul of California" podcast!
Richard Dion's The Soul of California podcast lets the leading thinkers, writers, academics and artists talk about their work and the influence of California on that work.  
Click here to listen to Magnus ruminate on Miller and his relationship to Big Sur, Emil White, the Library's archives, and more contemporary issues, such as preserving the area's cultural and natural values.... 
Ex-HML volunteer gets a deal with major publshing house!
Former volunteer and friend Brittany Newell's new novel Oola will be available next April via Holt Paperbacks!
Brittany, who often writes and performs under the nom de plume Ratty St. John, will graduate from Stanford University in 2016. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the winner of the Norman Mailer Award for Fiction. This is her first book.
And what about the book? Well, according to the pull quote, "Oola is a mind-bendingly original novel about the way that--particularly in the changeable, unsteady just-post-college years--sex, privilege, desire, and creativity can bend, blur, and break..."
Yup, sounds like the HML volunteer experience to us!
Check out President Obama awarding the 2015 National Medals of Arts and Humanities...
...to our great friend Philip Glass — who recently slayed it with Laurie Anderson at last
Friday's Days and Nights Festival performance — for "his groundbreaking contributions
to music and composition" below!

Big Sur Fabric Freshner, from Febreze! An olfactory update!

In a previous blast to the entire HML Universe (not just the Digest), we asked:

Tired of that not-so-fresh Soberanes smell?  Pungent Cypress secretions got you down?  Is that coastal breeze just a bit too, oh, brackish?

Then you need Big Sur Fabric Freshner from Febreze!

Magnus found it all rather charming and then, being the clinical Swede that he is, he did some research.

Sandalwood is a threatened species indigenous to South India, and grows in the Western Ghats and a few other mountain ranges such as the Kalrayan and Shevaroy Hills.  Jasmine is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eurasia, Australasia and Oceania. And cherry hails from northeastern Anatolia  — modern day Turkey.

In other words, the stuff isn't exactly indigenous to Big Sur. 

But why let that stop a great marketing strategy? (Indeed, the fact that we're even talking about it must make some ad executive in Manhattan sleep rather soundly at night. He succeeded. Then again, that also implies you're still reading this...are you?  We wonder....)
Ciao and arrivederci!  See you next month!
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