This a video recording of our conversation where we took Nin’s short story The Labyrinth, published in Under a Glass Bell (1948) to discuss Antunes and Doherty’s research and responses to Nin’s work with a focus on dreamlife, personal narrative, and pathways through the creative process…

In a life drenched in technology, the fast paced wheel of time and pressures of domestic life – leading a poetic life sounds impossible to some. To others it sounds pretentious. To all of human kind – it is a must…

“Hello Pussy,” announced Anaïs Nin’s husband Hugh Guiler on Tuesday 27th July 1926 (note the precise date and time she recorded in her diary). “We are going to London tomorrow.” This first visit lasting but all of three days to what the poet T. S. Eliot had recently called an ‘Unreal City,’ is absent from the two major biographies of her life…

A book that has been on my to-read pile for a little while is The Private Life of a Diary written by Sally Bayley. The book explores the lives of famous diarists such as Virginia Woolf, Samuel Pepys, Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, James Boswell, Oscar Wilde and many others…

Abandoned by her father at a young age, Nin's mother moved the entire family over to America. During this journey, something incredibly special happened and Nin began writing a letter to her Father to lure him back…

Was Anaïs Nin a feminist? This is a question that trails her and those interested in her. Because first they said she was, and then they said she wasn’t. And then they said she was again – and then they said she wasn’t again…

Diarist, author, lay-analyst, and muse, Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, widely known as Anaïs Nin, was a woman of many lives, appearances, and disguises. Becoming acquainted with Anais, is a bit of a labyrinthian task, but is also incredibly rewarding…

Death spread the canvas of my life before him and started painting over it, sections of my entire existence reduced to original white; the nothingness before I was even an outline, anything, anyone. He slowly began covering over my senses, my thoughts, the hairs on my head, my strength and coordination, my memories, the views beyond my Paris courtyard window, my breath…

Niklas Stephenson is trying to understand things through his writing. He has published a few chapbooks of poetry with Analog Submission Press & Between Shadows Press and self published a novel" Bloodbursts" available on the parasitic Amazon…

Violetta Leigh is a writer based in Canada and her poetry collection Night Paces is the second in The Black Editions imprint. Here we explore the writing life, we find out more about the poetry collection and Violetta recommends some of her favourite writers and poets…

As a child reading became compulsive and soon afterwards writing too. Navigating a difficult childhood, for various family reasons, my creativity was rarely acknowledged and never really encouraged…

I stumbled across a rather curious academic paper a few months ago, it was by an artist/writer and letterpress printer called Emily Larned, the piece was called The Intimate Books of Anaïs Nin – Diarist as Letterpress Printer. I was interested to chat with Emily..

often wondered, what ever happened to some of the women of the Beat Generation? They may have written and they may have sat next to Ginsberg in a café or sat sipping liquor next to Kerouac but what lurked inside them?