New Releases by Henry Miller

Book is largely a commentary by Henry Miller on Bob Nash''s work.

The first novel of Miller''s frank, autobiographical trilogy uses dream, fantasy, and burlesque to portray the life of a struggling writer in preWorld War I New York.

The author''s first play, half serious, half comic.

This study is not literary criticism but a fascinating chapter in Miller''s own spiritual autobiography. The social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist''s dilemma.

The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.

"A manuscript attributed to Henry Miller but then later denied by him when he claimed the writing wasn’t up to his standards, despite the fact that Grove Press published the book under his name in 1983. According to bibliographers Shifreen and Jackson none of the stories were written by Miller. What is known is that in 1940 Miller was commissioned by a book dealer to write pornographic stories for Oklahoma oilman Roy Melisander Johnson, a client who had a standing order for pornographic manuscripts. Miller enlisted the help of Anaïs Nin, who began writing the manuscripts herself, with contributions from Robert Duncan, Harvey Breit, Caresse Crosby, Virginia Admiral, and Robert Sewall. In 1941, Miller gathered those stories together into a single manuscript titled Opus Pistorum with his name on the title page, which he sold to Los Angeles book dealer Milton Luboviski. Luboviski in turn typed five copies of the manuscripts and sold them to collectors of erotica. Bibliographer Jackson estimates that at least 35-40 complete copies were typed up at various points, including those with the Carmel 1950 imprint. The work was first published in 1983 by Grove Press, from one of the “Carmel 1950” copies, and later republished as Under the Roofs of Paris."--Dealer''s description.