The AnaisNin.com Site Was Started Two Years Before This Cartoon Was Published.

Glycee Print of Subpoenaed Diaries of Anais Nin No Longer Available.

However, Jack Ziegler's cartoon is still available check out the link below:


http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-Subpoenaed-Diaries-Of-Anis-Nin-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8539536_.htm

The Subpoenaed Diaries Of Anaïs Nin - New Yorker Cartoon

By: Jack Ziegler Item #: 8539536

Published November 23, 1998
The Subpoenaed Diaries Of Anais Nin

Court officers hauling piles and piles of diaries to courtroom.

http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-Subpoenaed-Diaries-Of-Anis-Nin-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8539536_.htm


We can't copy the cartoon here, as it can only be licensed through the New Yorker's Cartoon Bank so check out the link above.




The Cartoon Bank is the brain child of another great cartoonist, Bob Mankoff and author of a delightful memoir:

How About Never, Is Never Good For You?

Tristine Rainer: Remembering John Ferrone

                               Remembering John Ferrone
                                   who died 4/10/2016


Anaïs Nin introduced me to John Ferrone, her Harcourt Brace Jovanovich editor at her Silverlake, California house where she lived with Rupert Pole as his wife. John, a New Yorker, knew her other husband, Hugo Guiler, as well and was privy to the secret of Anaïs’ double life. As one of the most grace-full men I have known, both in his manner and his movements, he was at ease in the world of sexual/emotional discretion. He'd lived the life of an undisguised gay man of 1950's in New York, and it was a world he negotiated with integrity and subtlety.

 In 1978 when I published my first book The New Diary in hardbound, John made an offer to my publisher Jeremy Tarcher, for Harcourt to acquire the paperback rights. Although he was contractually obligated to inform me of the offer, Tarcher without my knowledge rejected the Harcourt offer out of hand. When I learned from John that he'd made the trade paperback offer while no one had told me, he was outraged. He was a genteel literary editor, a breed that has all but disappeared, a man of honor who pledged his impressive gifts to enhance the work of his authors and stay in the background. He was modest about the vast improvements he made in Anaïs Nin's prose.

Anaïs, who most valued spontaneity in writing, once told me dismissively flicking her fingers, "Punctuation, grammar, that's for editors." John did far more than correct her unschooled grammar and punctuation, though. He highlighted the intelligence and emotional wisdom in her outpourings while giving her work an aesthetic subtlety it would otherwise lack.

Because of his commitment to make Anais’ writing shine in the best light, John's relationship with Rupert became antagonistic after her death. Each man complained to me about the other. Rupert wanted to preserve Anais’ every word as she wrote it. He was working with John on Harcourt's publication of her posthumous erotic work. John was dedicated to making her writing as honed as possible, which required cutting and shaping. They both loved her and her memory and, as with so many people who have loved her or her work, felt an almost irrational exclusive ownership of her. Yet on another occasion I recall an evening when John and Rupert were as jovial as two teenage buddies together. I was then in my 30's and working as President of Grand Central Films, a co-venture between Thames Television and an American production company. I wanted to option the Diaries as a network television mini-series. Since John was visiting L.A. and I then had an unlimited expense account, I invited John and Rupert to an expensive trendy restaurant near paramount. They were adorable, each vying to be the most charming and witty, like competing beaus. Anaïs was gone but her flirtatious spirit was with us that night.

In later years I would phone John when I visited New York and he would always make time to take me to lunch or dinner or, even better, cook for me. We both enjoyed literary gossip and swapping stories about  Anaïs’ foibles and secrets. He was lonely after his partner died, and for such a reserved gentleman, warm and vulnerable when he talked about the importance-the centrality-of love in our lives.

I recall only one disagreement between John and myself, it was just a half-full/half empty difference in perspective. I had been admiring Anaïs’ tenacity in working on herself, in transforming herself from a neurotic, frustrated unpublished writer into a joyous woman who shared her hard-won success and wisdom with others. John bemoaned that Anaïs enjoyed the publication of her Diaries and her emotional equanimity so late in her life. "She only had a few years before knowledge of her cancer ruined it." he said, "it took her so long to get what she wanted. She enjoyed it so briefly."

But she got there. She realized her dreams," I said.

He shook his head. "Too briefly."

I understand those feelings now, John. You had a relatively long life, living despite Parkinsons Disease to 91. My regret is that our friendship blossomed only in your later years and lasted too briefly, too briefly.




Any typos in this posting are not due to it's author, but to the scribe who typed it into html so that readers of the blog would be able to read it in a timely fashion. For readers who missed the New York Times obit (Thank you Steven Reigns for sending it on) please link here.















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Happy 113th Birthday to Anais Post 2

This just in from Judith Citrin

In time to celebrate in some time zones Anais's 113th birthday with a second post.

For the promised Antioch video on The Allure of Anais click the you tube link below.



https://youtu.be/Zf5dIjF5dJs

Happy Birthday Anais

"Joy appears now in the little things. The big themes remain tragic but a leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the taste of coffee--Joy accompanied me as I walked to the press. The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
-Anais Nin

Joyeux anniversaire Anais!

From the Thinking of Anais Nin site, we are posting something from the archives. The first screenshot of the Thinking of Anais Nin site.

Allure of Anais Nin

Apologies to the Nin World for not posting this interview with Steven Reigns earlier:

 http://www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shownotes/2016/1/13/the-best-smut-youll-ever-read-ep-34-anais-nin

The event was this Friday. I was traveling when I received the interview and since Steven is interviewed in many contexts, I didn't track that it might be an interview for this event. "Allure" also featured Diana Rabb and Tristine Rainer whom I had the pleasure of meeting at an earlier event last year where presenters included my friends Valerie Harms and Sas Colby and Barbara Kraft.



I received a picture today from Steven and my dear friend Judith Citrin who was a dear friend of Anais's and spoke at the event this weekend. Here we are years ago with  Anais's editor  at Swallow, Donna Ippolito discussing the current anaisnin.com site.

 Steven mentioned he will update us on the event at a later moment. And of course I hope to touch base with Judith when she is back in the Chicago area to hear about it in person.