All these re-releases are great, especially with extra songs. But let’s begin with the past in front. I would love a double album with these 2
Someone posted some Henry Miller recently so I wanted to share mine.
The black books are sometimes called the Tropic Trilogy but they are not technically a trilogy. They are loosely connected at best.
They were published:
Tropic Of Cancer: 1934
Black Spring: 1936
Tropic Of Capricorn: 1939
They were all banned in the US until the mid 1960s.
I believe the set in the pictures were released separately between 1961-1963.
The Rosy Crucifixion (Sexus, Plexus, Nexus) trilogy came out over a ten-year span:
Sexus: 1949
Plexus: 1953
Nexus: 1959
The legal battle to print Henry Miller's work in the United States concluded with the 1964 Supreme Court decision in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein, which ruled that Tropic of Cancer was not legally obscene.
It was a 5-4 decision was issued alongside Jacobellis v. Ohio, a landmark case that established a national standard for obscenity and introduced the concept that material must be "utterly without redeeming social importance”.
In 1965 all three were finally published together in the United States by Grove Press. That is the edition pictured. The full 1965 Grove Press books in the original slipcase.
That Grove Press release was a pretty major literary/cultural event. Miller suddenly went from semi-underground banned author to bestseller almost overnight.
There is actually a r/henrymiller subreddit but it seems abandoned and locked down.
I’ll leave you with a Henry Miller quote:
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
Someone posted some Henry Miller recently so I wanted to share mine.
The black books are sometimes called the Tropic Trilogy but they are not technically a trilogy. They are loosely connected at best.
They were published:
Tropic Of Cancer: 1934
Black Spring: 1936
Tropic Of Capricorn: 1939
They were all banned in the US until the mid 1960s.
I believe the set in the pictures were released separately between 1961-1963.
The Rosy Crucifixion (Sexus, Plexus, Nexus) trilogy came out over a ten-year span:
Sexus: 1949
Plexus: 1953
Nexus: 1959
The legal battle to print Henry Miller's work in the United States concluded with the 1964 Supreme Court decision in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein, which ruled that Tropic of Cancer was not legally obscene.
It was a 5-4 decision was issued alongside Jacobellis v. Ohio, a landmark case that established a national standard for obscenity and introduced the concept that material must be "utterly without redeeming social importance”.
In 1965 all three were finally published together in the United States by Grove Press. That is the edition pictured. The full 1965 Grove Press books in the original slipcase.
That Grove Press release was a pretty major literary/cultural event. Miller suddenly went from semi-underground banned author to bestseller almost overnight.
There is actually a r/henrymiller subreddit but it seems abandoned and locked down.
I’ll leave you with a Henry Miller quote:
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
Has anyone attended one of the book clubs at the Writer's Block?
https://www.thewritersblock.org/events-book-clubs/book-clubs
I've been wanting to go for a while, but it doesn't quite seem like a "real" book club.
It looks like everyone reads a book, then just shows up on 1 day, for about an hour to talk about it. One of their current book clubs is doing Infinite Jest. How can you possible even dent that in a 1 hour group setting?
Does anyone have any experience with this or other book clubs in town?