Anais Nin Podcast: Recent Episodes
Paul Herron
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are,” said Anais Nin, the subject of the film Henry and June, the world’s most prolific diarist and the writer of bestselling erotica, who left behind a legacy that continues to unfold. The Anais Nin Podcast will reveal the unknown aspects of this provocative and fascinating writer’s life and work. To learn more about this literary icon read "The Portable Anais Nin," "Mirages" or "A Cafe in Space, the Anais Nin Literary Journal" all available now as ibooks in the itunes store.
A restored recording of Joaquín Nin-Culmell’s moving tribute to his big sister, Anaïs Nin. New York, Feb. 22, 1977.
In 1962 Anaïs Nin was invited to read excerpts from French poet Henri Michaux's controversial book Miserable Miracle, in which he describes the effects of mescaline and hashish on him. Nin read excerpts in French, and her lover Rupert Pole read the English translations. From a newly restored recording.
Iconic feminist Kate Millett, author of Sexual Politics (1970), pays tribute to Anaïs Nin by reading her diary passages about June Miller.
On February 22, 1977, a few weeks after Anaïs Nin's death, a celebration of her life was held in New York, which included several of Nin's friends and colleagues. The poet Daisy Aidan chose to read passages from the then-unpublished childhood diary, and her rendering of the young Anaïs is endearing, humorous, and brilliant.
Paul Herron interviews two prominent scholars about Anais Nin's legacy and impact on Japanese readers and culture. Recorded in Osaka, Japan.
Both French ex-patriots and avant-garde twentieth century artists, it was only natural that Anaïs Nin and Edgard Varèse would be drawn to each other. Varèse's final composition, "Nocturnal," was inspired by Nin's "House of Incest" and was unfinished at the time of his death in 1965. However, his protege Chou Wen-chung, using scattered notes and sketches, miraculously finished the work. Listen to the 1974 recording of a live performance of the complete "Nocturnal."
This long-lost audio recording of Lawrence Durrell's 1974 seminar on D. H. Lawrence at CalTech in March 1974 with special guest Anais Nin has been restored. Theories, both modern and not, are bandied about in this lively exchange between two of literature's "three musketeers." A must-listen for Nin and Durrell fans alike.
In this episode Paul Herron discusses the 40-year-long friendship between two of the "Three Musketeers," Anaïs Nin and Lawrence Durrell. Ups and downs, off and on, devotional and contentious, the friendship endured until Nin's death in 1977.
Robert Zaller, the editor of 'A Casebook on Anais Nin' (1974), discusses his and his wife Lili Bita's friendship with Anais Nin, which was, as he put it, "...uniformly positive. Anais was an extraordinarily generous person. Faithfulness in the conventional sense was not important to her, loyalty was. She was too intelligent and too mercurial to ever be satisfied by anyone, and to that--to herself--she was indeed faithful."
Gunther Stuhlmann was Anais Nin's literary agent for thirty years, her co-editor of her famous diaries, and the founder and editor of ANAIS: An International Journal from 1983 to 2001. This podcast goes behind the scenes and takes a personal look at the man considered to be the formibable "lion at the gate" of the Nin archive.
This podcast is the story of how erotica writer Lana Fox, a survivor of sexual abuse and incest, was inspired by Anaïs Nin’s erotica and diaries to truly discover and accept herself, to rise from tragedy to triumph.
Preeminent Anaïs Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V discusses his fifty years of devotion to author Anaïs Nin and what it was like to work with her at the peak of her fame.
This podcast reveals the fallout after the 1942 breakup of one of the most famous literary love affairs, that of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller. We find out that Nin attempted to revive the friendship and failed, and that Miller betrayed her trust when his friend published a book revealing details of the affair. Just when Nin was destitute, Miller suddenly became rich and famous—did he come to her rescue? Excerpts from Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, found at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mirages-unexpurgated-diary/id735878484?mt=11 and volume 12 of A Café in Space, found at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/cafe-in-space-anais-nin-literary/id967509292?mt=11
Marina Ferrer, Brazilian poet, explains how Anaïs Nin has changed her life and art, and how Nin affects the open-minded reader. In this interview, Ferrer informs the listener how to appreciate Nin’s most neglected—but perhaps most important—writing, her fiction, especially Nin’s continuous novel, Cities of the Interior, found on iTunes at (https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/cities-of-the-interior/id736459657?mt=11).
Our listeners gave us ten questions that they would have liked to ask Anaïs Nin. In part one of this podcast, with the help of Sex Love Joy podcaster Anaín Bjorkquist, we looked at the first five, and now we answer the second five, backed up with excerpts from Nin’ published and unpublished work, including the latest diary Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mirages-unexpurgated-diary/id735878484?mt=11).
The “come as your madness” party which inspired the movie “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.”
Anais Nin has long been a catalyst for personal growth and transformation. This is the story of how of a once-alliterate person came to be the curator and publisher of Nin's writing.
There are two mythical diaries that Nin readers have most likely heard of, but know little or nothing about: The Book of Pain and The Book of Music.
Our listeners gave us ten questions that they would have liked to ask Anaïs Nin. In part one of this podcast, with the help of Sex Love Joy podcaster Anaín Bjorkquist, we answer the first five, backed up with excerpts from Nin’ published and unpublished work, including the latest diary Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mirages-unexpurgated-diary/id735878484?mt=11).
Most people know how the Anais Nin-Henry Miller affair began, but do you know how it really ended? Find out here.