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Welcome Digesters!Greetings from a windy, rainy, cold(ish) and even-if-we-could-complain-we-never-would Big Sur! We hope this message finds you well wherever you may be. Call it a hunch, but we're particularly excited about this installment of the Digest. I guess we're just optimists at heart. Off we go! Weeeeeee!!!!!...
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....drumroll!!! Thank you!!!We just picked up the check from the Monterey County Gives Campaign! You digesteers are responsible for most of this manna and we are so very grateful to you. 2017 was a challenge so this is extra important at this moment! Thank you!
“Money is like a sixth sense – and you can't make use of the other five without it.” – William Somerset Maugham
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Revising Henry's "Notice to Visitors"Visitors to the Library will likely recall reading Henry's "Notice to Visitors," a copy of which is hanging on the building's west-facing outside wall. But what compelled Henry to write it? Our friends at Brain Pickings pick (!) up the story....
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"As I was playing I felt the room speaking back to me!" Olov Johansson, Väsen. I think all who were inside the Library last Monday (Jan. 26) for VÄSEN can relate to what Olov says: The library has amazing acoustics and they indeed helped to make this one of the most intense, joyful and marvelous concert we've ever had. Thanks to all who came, to Mikael, Roger, and Olov for playing and to Rob Simonds for helping to make it happen! Please stay tuned for the recording of the show - we think it'll turn out good after we mastered the files - stay tuned!
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The Brave Wild CoastA Year with Henry Miller
By Judson Crews
Some copies of this book are still left and we feel it belongs on every Big Sur bookshelf. On the back of the book it says: In episodes sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, we are... shown a post-bohemian, pre-hippie community practising an ethic of freedom...Stop in for your copy!
The book, along with much else, describes life at and near Anderson Canyon with a fascinating gallery of characters. Henry and Marta (Lepska) Miller, Jean and Virginia Varda, Harry Partsch, Norman Mini, Kathryn and Walker Winslow, Emil White, George and Nancy Leite, Gilbert and Margaret Neiman, Wendell Anderson, Jaime and Gui De Angulo, Helmuth Deetjen...and others!
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Henry Miller's Cabin at Anderson |
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From the Publisher of The Brave Wild Coast:
Six of the photographs dating from the 1940s have never been published; one is the only photo ever known to have been taken by Miller himself. There is also a previously unpublished ten-page letter from Henry, advising the young poet in his first attempt at a novel.
About the Author:
Judson Crews has published more than 2,200 poems over sixty years, some of which have been collected into 63 books. He is something of a cult hero on university campuses, and has been called by Gregory Smith, editor of "Atom Mind," "foremost among little-mag poets."
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|  | In 1932 this camp was established at Anderson Creek for convict laborers.
This is where Henry Miller lived in 1946-47 with some of the people mentioned above. | |
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Digest Trivia Time (DTT) with Norman Mailer! Norman Mailer, in his 1976 book on Henry entitled Genius and Lust, called Tropic of Cancer "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century." Ever the hyperbolist, Mailer then went further, declared the obscured writer below "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius." Which writer was Mailer referring to? Answer at the end of the Digest. (No peeking!)
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Shelley Alden Brooks at the Grange is live!Good news! We recently added the recorded presentation with Shelley Alden Brooks, author of "Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape,"
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More sounds!
Miller Audio Guest book...sneak preview!
The beautiful box seen to the right contain what you need to share with us your sounds...spontaneous or planned, during your visit to the Library, to Big Sur, to the beach, the hills, songs, poems, meditations, small talk, sounds of nature, the road, someone breathing, a hawk...it can, and will, be a lot of different sounds and we look forward to all of it!
We have put together a small sampling of what the box brought us in January. Listen to it HERE!
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A Call for Novels!
Visitors often ask us, "Who picks the books you carry?" and the answer is, "Those of us who work here...and our guests!" It's true. So now we ask you, dear Digester, here in the digital domain: What do you think we should read and carry in our small bookstore? Email us at hmlib@henrymiller.org. We are especially interested in your recommendations of good fiction—old and new! (Fun fact: Just last week, someone told Mike to order "Cadillac Desert"—admittedly, not a novel—and he did.)
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Happy Birthday, Anaïs and Anthony!Happy belated birthday to Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, aka Anais Nin, born February 21, 1903 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France…
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And that's a wrap! Thanks for reading and we'll see you next month!
As ever, Magnus, Sarah, Mike, Ab, Nate, John, Jack, and Alice PS - Oh, and yes, one last thing...
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| ...and the answer to the DTT is...
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...William Seward Burroughs II.
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