Advice from Henry Miller’s Mother “I don’t think that there is a conspiracy against you.” – Edwin Roth, journalist Concerning the word “conspiracy,” Harry replied, “that word has a twitty ring to it. I would say that I have am[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember Max! I’ve read and reread Henry Miller. He was a natural storyteller. For me, Miller’s fly in the ointment, or his flies in the ointment, are the erotic passages. And speaking of flies, there are puns better left unsaid.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Miss Graham and the American Foxhound Miss Graham was what is pejoratively referred to as spinster and an old maid. She was an elderly lady that my mother and my Aunt Edith met in London. She lived on the outskirts[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kärntnerstrasse 28 I remember my maternal grandmother well. She had the apartment next to us on the second floor of our house on Rueppgasse 16 in Vienna’s second district. I loved sitting in her kitchen with the ticking wall clock.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…