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Filling Out Life’s Circumference: Anaïs Nin’s Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s

Nin’s fiction promoted a balance between external reality and the imaginative life.

December 21, 2011
By Robert Stanley Martin
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Brassaï: A Perspective Knowing

The photographs leave one with a greater objectivity, a more complete concept of the moment depicted.

Thoughts on Henry Miller and Surrealism

One of the most striking aspects of Miller’s writing, what gives it much of its expanse and lift, is his use of digression; his flights of rhetoric stick in the mind long after his books’ incidents and characters fade away.

May 6, 2011
By Anja Flower
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Habitual Interspecies Gorey

Gorey spoke of preferring a fairly unplanned, direct mode of creative production, and his work has a whole lot of his own character in it, in its implied asexuality, ritual repetition (a big deal for him – he attended every single performance of the New York City Ballet for many years), habitual return to themes, cycling cast of motifs, character types and plot tropes, and so on.