Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. The author’s own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. Nin herself memorably claimed that it was the fiction writer who edited the diary.” Ladders to Fire is the first book of Nin’s continuous novel, Cities of the Interior, which also includes Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Seduction of the Minotaur. These loosely interlinked stories develop the characters and themes established in the first volume, leading slowly toward a resolution of inner turmoil and conflict. This Swallow Press reissue of Ladders to Fire includes a new introduction by Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V, as well as Gunther Stuhlmann’s classic foreword to the 1995 edition.

Ladders to Fire

Literature & Fiction

Nin, Anaïs

Franklin V, Benjamin

Literary

SWALLOW PRESS+

Recollections of Anaïs Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her. She is the unconventional, distant aunt; the thoughtful friend; the owner of a strangely disarming voice; the author eager for attention yet hypersensitive to criticism; the generous advisor to a literary magazine; the adulteress; the beautiful septuagenarian; the recommender of books — the contributors elaborate on thses and many other perceptions of Nin. Readers of this book will meet one of the most enigmatic literary women of the twentieth century.

Recollections of Anaïs Nin: By Her Contemporaries

Business & Money

Ohio University Press

Recollections of Anaïs Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her. She is the unconventional, distant aunt; the thoughtful friend; the owner of a strangely disarming voice; the author eager for attention yet hypersensitive to criticism; the generous advisor to a literary magazine; the adulteress; the beautiful septuagenarian; the recommender of books—the contributors elaborate on thses and many other perceptions of Nin. Readers of this book will meet one of the most enigmatic literary women of the twentieth century.

Biographies & Memoirs

The official Anais Nin literary journal. This issue includes a tribute to Rupert Pole, Nin's long time California companion, who died July 2006, in the form of correspondence between him and Harcourt editor John Ferrone during the genesis of Nin's first unexpurgated diary, 'Henry and June.' Also included is correspondence between Anais Nin and legendary publisher Alan Swallow during the birth of the original diary, along with articles and essays by Benjamin Franklin V, Nancy Gobatto, Sarah King, Yuko Yaguchi, Peter Christensen, and Heather Darcy, and a poem by Morton Traub. Photos, reviews and summaries of current literature and events are included. The journal has an accompanying web site and online discussion group.

A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 4

Stuhlmann, Gunther

King, Sarah

Yaguchi, Yuko

Swallow, Alan

Traub, Morton

Christensen, Peter

Darcy, Heather

Arts & Literature

Sky Blue Press

Anaïs Nin Character Dictionary and Index to Diary Excerpts contains a description of every character Anaïs Nin used in her published fiction, cross-referenced with sources. This book includes an index of all persons, places, and works from all of Nin's unpublished diary excerpts. This reference is compiled by preeminent Nin bibliographer and scholar Benjamin Franklin V, Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina. Anaïs Nin Character Dictionary and Index to Diary Excerpts is a valuable companion to anyone who reads and values Nin's work.

Anais Nin Character Dictionary: And Index to Diary Excerpts

Volume 8 of A Cafe in Space, the only current journal dedicated to the life and work of diarist and novelist Anais Nin, contains striking letters between Nin and Hugh Guiler shortly before her death, and between Rupert Pole and Guiler shortly after her death. The letters reveal a need for Nin to emotionally split from Guiler, her husband of 53 years, and how Guiler and Pole, with whom Nin was living, managed to work together promoting Nin's work after her death. They also clear up any misconceptions about whether Guiler knew about Pole in light of the great lengths to which Nin webt in order to keep him in the dark.  Also included in this issue are articles by scholars from around the world regarding Nin, her writing and sense of fashion, filmmaker Maya Deren, the movie Henry and June, as well as a look at Nin's "father-in-law," Reginald Pole, the renowned Shakespearean actor.An excerpt from Barbara Kraft's memoir Anais Nin: The Last Days gives us a look at Nin's final illness as told by an intimate friend.

A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 8

Kanazawa, Satoshi

Kraft, Barbara

Jarczok, Anita

Krizan, Kim

Kiakis, Harry

Rainer, Tristine

Enos, Joel

Essays & Correspondence

Through detailed interviews with 19 South Carolina musicians, jazz historian and radio host Benjamin Franklin presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State.

Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others

University of South Carolina Press

In An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians, Benjamin Franklin V documents the careers of South Carolina jazz and blues musicians from the nineteenth century to the present. The musicians range from the renowned (James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie), to the notable (Freddie Green, Josh White), to the largely forgotten (Fud Livingston, Josie Miles),to the obscure (Lottie Frost Hightower, Horace "Spoons" Williams), to the unknown (Vince Arnold, Johnny Wilson). Though the term "jazz" is commonly understood, if difficult to define, "blues" has evolved over time to include rhythm and blues, doo-wop, and soul music. Performers in these genres are represented, as are members of the Jenkins Orphanage bands of Charleston. The volume also treats nineteenth-century musicians who performed what might be called proto-jazz or proto-blues in string bands, medicine shows, vaudeville, and the like. Organized alphabetically, from Johnny Acey to Webster Young, the book's entries include basic biographical information, South Carolina residences, career details, compositions, recordings as leaders and as band members, films, awards, Web sites, and lists of resources for additional reading. Franklin has ensured biographical accuracy to the greatest degree possible by consulting such sources as the census, military registers, passport applications, and other public documents including, when law permitted, death certificates. Information in these records permitted him to dispel myths and correct misinformation that have surrounded South Carolina's musical history for generations.

An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz & Blues Musicians

Arts & Photography

Music

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