This noteworthy Digest edition goes out to all and sundry!
This noteworthy Digest edition goes out to all and sundry!
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If you have never received a Henry Miller Library Digest, welcome! (If you have, you can skip to the "Greetings" part.)
The Digest is a members-only monthly email that includes—as you'll soon see—special deals, cool content, and other extremely fun stuff. If you like what you see, join us for only $2 a month ( or more of course (-: ) by clicking HERE.   
$2 a month may not seem like much, but it helps us tremendously! We hope to see you next month!  We now return to our regularly scheduled Digest...
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Greetings digesteers, from the Henry Miller Library, where the "pursuit of nothingness" marches on unabated with a few inevitable blips. What blips? Consider the following:

Jack the cat bit Linnea the volunteer's toes the other night. Abi constructed a new curtain rod to effectively cloak tent village (spoiler alert: the rod was a giant branch). Visitors still love our mini-fridge that holds creamer for coffee, the short film series is open for submissions, and poet Eric Barker came for a 'visit' in the form of a wonderful donation of letters, books, unpublished poems and...
But enough of our yammering. Here is your digest -- bon appetit!
It's a Heyday Holiday!  
Discounted Books!
We like Heyday. Like...like like. JK - We love them! 
For over 40 years, the Berkeley-based publisher, led by the indefatigable and, yes, inimitable Malcom Margolin*, has promoted awareness and celebration of California’s many cultures, landscapes, and boundary-breaking ideas.
They also publish epic books for kids. Two of our favorites are It's Nice to Be an Otter and It's Nice to Be a Pika.
You, as a digester, can get 15% off these books by clicking the aforementioned titles and typing in "Digest" when you check out!
Or you can also call us at 831-667-2574!
* Malcolm retired from Heyday in 2015.
Eric Barker - Poet & Gardener of Big Sur

Many of you know Eric Barker. Emil White and Henry Miller knew him well. The HM Library has over the years continued to collect material by and about Eric. Knowing that you will fully appreciate the great excitement we feel about the generous and significant donation made to us last week by Lawrence and Margaret Berkoben of Carmel.
We received and archive of correspondence spanning the years 1955 to 1973, unpublished poems, a great archive of magazine clippings and newspaper articles and some ephemera of other kinds. 
The most unique item however is the Death Mask of Eric Barker. Mt Berkoben says this about it, 
"The bronze face mask! Gypsy, the woman Eric lived with at his death, asked Gordon Newell, a sculptor friend of Eric's, to make a wax face mask of Eric. In tears, he did so. When I interviewed Gordon, he gave me the wax impression. I had a bronze cast made at the CSU Stanislaus."

Photos of the mask by Linnea Stephan


Big Sur by Eric Barker

I lose faith in words in this country.
Better to leave unsaid
the poems that cannot describe the highest arcs
of turning and turning hawks, the mountainous
voyaging leisure of animal-changing clouds.
What words released from this granite shoulder
can return like a cliff-falling gull
translating a mood of the sea?
Or strike such wild notes as two hawks now
down-circling their hazardous air?
Better let the truth be spoken
by what inhabits here from birth:
the authochtonous voice
interpreting its own environment.
Better to stand and listen to sounds
not alien here.
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authochtonous = native/indigenous
  More Internet Love for Henry's
The Colossus of Maroussi!
Sometimes it takes decades for great works of art to be appreciated by the general public. Moby Dick, for example, was a total flop upon its initial release. Critics weren't initially kind to Hitchcock's Vertigo, and now it's at the top of most "Best of All-Time" lists. And don't get us started on the Bee Gees' Main Course.
Which brings us to Henry's incandescent Grecian travelogue, The Coloussus of Maroussi. Indeed, it was Henry's favorite book, and it turns out he was on to something. You may recall in a previous Digest we cited a New York Times piece on it. 
Well, now we'd like to refer you to a generous write-up courtesy of Hyperallergic. Check it out here!
Click on the image above to submit your film(s) for the 
2017 Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series!
Have you heard of Big Sur Stories? Well, now you have! With the help of a grant from Cal Humanities, we launched Big Sur Stories last year as a living resource capturing the oral histories of folks who have called our rugged stretch of coast home. To learn more about it, click here. 
And more to the point, we're happy to announce that we've recently uploaded five new interviews! (With many more soon to come.)  Peggy Horan, Marty & Ted Hartman, Brian Steen, Ray Sanborn and Kenny Comello! This spring we will have regular Sunday afternoon events focusing on oral histories, and audio recordings in general, please get in touch if you would like to get involved, help out, suggest things, and/or comment in general. e-mail us.
Flashback to Simpler Times (Namely 2013):
First Aid Kit Plays the Library!  Re-live it!!
We know what you're going to say: "You love First Aid Kit because they're Swedish."
That, undoubtedly, is true. But it's also specious logic.
After all, Jimmie Åkesson is Swedish and we don't "love" him. Why? Because he's head of the country's scary right-wing nationalist party! 
We love First Aid Kit for the same reasons everyone else does. They write incredible songs.* Their luminously close sisterly harmonies. And they're very nice.
They played the Library in 2013 and Amy over at the Free People Blog wrote a wonderful summation of her concert experience, which we encourage you to check out, HERE!  Skitkul!!!**
Still reading?  Your perseverance will be rewarded!
Click here and get a 15% discount on the children's classic Mio My Son by — surprise! — Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.
When you check out, type "Still Reading" (Get it?)  
Or call us at (831) 667-2574!
Apropos writing for Children: The Library just completed their 19th (!)*** annual Children's Writing Workshop Dec 2-4. Occupying every single room at the State Park Lodge with writers coming from across the country a good time was had by all. More about or writing workshops HERE.
And with that, bye bye!!!  See you next month!!
* If you like First Aid Kit, check out Erato.
** Shit fun!
*** Some of us find this number "19" incomprehensible.
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