Is Henry’s 1st Commandment on Writing Blasphemous?
Always one to one-up Yahweh, Henry drew up his "11 Commandments on Writing." You can read them in his book, "Henry Miller on Writing," which, if we're to extend the…
Exclusive interview with Helen West, winner of the New Hippie Sven Mug Sweepstakes (NHSMS)
We recently checked in with Helen West in Baltimore over email to discuss her successful selection of design #2 in the New Hippie Sven Mug Sweepstakes (NHSMS). Check it out!…
Photos from our Lucia celebration!
Earlier this month, we had our Lucia Festival of Light celebration. It was fantastic! The evening included beautiful music, carols, hot glogg, good holiday cheer, and, of course, the festival…
Live or Re-live the Big Sur Fashion Show!
The Library hosted the Big Sur Fashion Show on Thursday, September 29 and it was amazing. If you couldn't make it — it did, after all, sell out within a day…
Astrological portents explaining Henry’s ubiquity
In our June 2022 Henry Miller Library email Digest, we asked (rhetorically, we thought) why Henry’s name seemed to be popping up everywhere — on Jeopardy!, on the backseat t.v.…
Why is a 1,136-page book about an irredeemably evil murderer an HML best-seller?
Most of our best-sellers are predictable titles — "Tropic of Cancer," "Big Sur," "Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch," etc. But one title in particular title flies off…
Check out scans from our guestbook!
We humbly encourage you to sit back, put on some music, and sift through the beautiful ids of Library visitors from all over the world by checking out scans from our…
Where do all the books go?
When writers pass away, they leave mountains of letters, manuscripts, and other types of correspondence. What do their estates do with it all in their efforts to preserve and, whenever…
Was Henry really that ripped?
Loyal Digest readers know that Henry would make the occasional cameo on the TV show "The Durrells." We came across this screenshot, below of Henry au naturale (played by Trevor White) in…
Taylor made a sound chandelier!
Volunteer for Life (VFL) Taylor is extremely creative, but even we were struck by her latest creation -- a sound chandelier culled from various objects in and around the Library. In fact,…
Sunday: “Delirium Condor” reading!
Former Monterey and Big Sur resident, writer/musician Max Talley, returns to the Henry Miller Library on Sunday, July 18th for an outdoor reading and signing of his new anthology, "Delirium Corridor."…
Live music this Saturday, July 17!
Free outdoor music (3-5 pm) this Saturday, July 17 at the Library! Big Sur’s own Songs Hotbox Harry Taught Us sends off Tara (pictured with Wanda Jackson!??!), who’s moving to…
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