Anaïs Nin returned to Morocco in the summer of 1969, after her first trip thirty-three years earlier.  In volume six of the Diary, Nin writes of the Swedish writer and poet Artur Lundkvist, who, while interviewing her for radio informed her of how he and his wife were staying in a hotel in Agadir at the time of the devastating earthquake in 1960…

Woman's role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don't mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate…

Nin wears black lace, a swishing taffeta and is ‘sparkling’. When her husband joins her later, he is breathless and eager to take her home and make love to her. Lucia is dressed in white satin that she has bought on Grand Street for a few dollars. She says “The only romantic style left to us is the wedding dress.”…

Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone is an in-progress feature documentary about iconic Berkeley street poet Julia Vinograd, who emerged from the 1960’s Free Speech Movement fighting state oppression with bubbles instead of bricks…

Based on Anaïs Nin's essay The Artist as a Magician (found in her book A Woman Speaks, edited by Evelyn Hinz), the following text aims to create a dialogue between the past and the present, to bring light into the magic realm…

I have always looked inward. I was called “thoughtful” and some would say I was always “living in my head”, often portrayed as a negative trait. As an adult I see this very differently now. I see that others were afraid of their own minds and projected that fear onto me…

When someone describes their work as a meditation on (insert subject here), we expect a slow, quiet meander through thought, theory and maybe the odd jam recipe…

Self-publishing has a bad reputation. Those who see self-publishing as an opportunity to create and share art are slowly dismantling the old-fashioned notion that self-publishing is a failure on the artist's part for not being good enough…

Jeanne is on a quest for pleasure. In her “memory palace” there is a plethora of images and descriptions, all of which contain her encounters with men. The men she picks up from the streets of Paris…

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…