Gunther Stuhlmann: the man behind Anaïs Nin’s success
Gunther Stuhlmann (1927-2002) is one of the main topics in Volume 3 of A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, which is now available on Amazon’s Kindle. Nin & Stuhlmann at booksigning,...
View ArticleAlan Swallow: Anais Nin’s publisher
On the surface, the match between writer Anaïs Nin and publisher Alan Swallow seemed perfect. Both were passionate about their work, neither of them trusted the world of big-time publishers, and both...
View ArticleThe Genesis of The Portable Anais Nin
The idea of The Portable Anaïs Nin came from Gunther Stuhlmann, who was Nin’s literary agent and co-editor of her Diary of Anaïs Nin. At the time, which was in the mid-1990s, he felt that too much...
View ArticleANAIS: An International Journal Lives On
The year after Anais Nin’s longtime agent and diary editor, Gunther Stuhlmann, died, I paid a visit to his wife, Barbara, in their hand-built house in the Berkshires. It was a sad visit; Gunther used...
View ArticleVolume 4 of ANAIS: An International Journal released on Kindle
When Volume 4 of Gunther Stuhlmann’s ANAIS: An International Journal appeared in February 1986, Anaïs Nin’s husband, Hugh (Hugo) Guiler, aka Ian Hugo, had recently died suddenly in his New York...
View ArticleAnais Nin Podcast 3: How Anais Nin Changed a Life
The third Anais Nin podcast is here! In response to a question I sometimes get–”Who are you and how did you get this way?”–I share my journey that began with the movie Henry and June and has resulted...
View ArticleNew Guardian Article Raises Questions about Anaïs Nin
Recently The Guardian posted an article, written by Sady Doyle, about Anaïs Nin which chronicles her struggles as a young writer, her meteoric rise to fame, her downfall in the aftermath of Incest and...
View ArticleAnaïs Nin Podcast 12: He Said, She Said
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 documents a long period of “erotic madness” when Anaïs Nin, in order to find someone who could relieve her of her stifling marriage to Hugh...
View ArticlePodcast 28: A brief history of journals dedicated to Anaïs Nin
Until after Anaïs Nin published her blockbuster Diary of Anaïs Nin in 1966, there had been very few critical studies of her work. One notable exception was Oliver Evans’ article “Anaïs Nin and the...
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