http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com News and Information about Anais Nin Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:51:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When Dutton published Anaïs Nin’s first full-length novel, Ladders to Fire, in 1946 (which then contained a section entitled "Stella"), the critics railed against Nin’s use of language in general and her distillation of characters in particular. Nin had revolted against America’s tradition of detailed and realistic descriptions in favor ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/07/response-to-the-critics-anais-nins-wrath/ Anaïs Nin: An Understanding of Her Art, a book-length study by Rochelle Lynn Holt, was first published in 1997. Now, after thirteen years, Holt has published an updated version of the title. Holt traces Nin’s growth as a writer while intertwining the major events in her life with the work—everything from ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/07/revised-anais-nin-study-is-published/ A reading of the play Anaïs Nin: Woman of the Dream, written by Doraine Poretz, will be staged at the Electric Stage in Venice, California, on August 1, 2010 at 7:30PM. The play incorporates simultaneous appearances of Nin at various ages (as a young girl; as a young woman in Paris; ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/07/anais-nin-woman-of-the-dream%e2%80%94a-reading-of-the-play/ When I published Sky Blue Press’s first book, Anaïs Nin: A Book of Mirrors, 14 years ago, there was then only one truly viable format: paper. The nearly 500 page manuscript was sent to a massive press, which began spitting out gigantic sheets on each of which several pages of text appeared. ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/07/anais-nin-in-a-digital-world/ The character who serves as a sort of Master of Ceremonies in Anaïs Nin’s final novel, Collages, named Renate, is based on one of Nin’s closest friends, Renate Druks. When Paul Mathiesen, one of Anaïs Nin’s many young homosexual friends at the time, paid her a visit in Sierra Madre ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/07/the-characters-of-anais-nin%e2%80%99s-collages-renate-druks/ Anaïs Nin’s last novel, Collages, is populated with several characters taken from real life. We are beginning a series of posts based on these personages, and we continue with the collage artist, Jean (Janko) Varda. In 1944, Henry Miller introduced Anaïs Nin to Varda by giving him one of her ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/06/the-characters-of-anais-nin%e2%80%99s-collages-jean-varda/ Anaïs Nin’s last novel, Collages, is populated with several characters taken from real life. We are beginning a series of posts based on these personages, and we begin with the Swiss "kinetic artist" Jean Tinguely. In Collages, some of Nin’s characters attend Tinguely’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/05/the-characters-of-anais-nins-collages-jean-tinguely/  In 1948, when Anaïs Nin first began writing her novel The Four-Chambered Heart, she described it as her "last act of love" for Gonzalo Moré, the Peruvian radical and bohemian with whom she’d been locked in a torturous, doomed relationship for more than a decade. "It is the monument that ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/05/the-story-behind-anais-nin%e2%80%99s-the-four-chambered-heart/ [caption id="attachment_1539" align="alignleft" width="86" caption="Ladders to Fire (Dutton)"][/caption] Anaïs Nin’s first full-length novel, Ladders to Fire, has undergone many incarnations and has a history that includes several key Nin titles. When the original version of The Winter of Artifice (Paris, Obelisk Press, 1939) was gutted for reasons of censorship in America, ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/05/anais-nins-ladders-to-fire-on-kindle/ For the first time Anaïs Nin was represented at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which ran April 24-25, 2010 at UCLA. It was a success in terms of sales and perhaps even more so getting the word out that there is a determined organization promoting and preserving the ... http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2010/05/anais-nin-at-the-festival-of-books/