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Skip to content The Henry Miller Library Founded by Emil White ‘Where Nothing Happens’ Home Home Henry Miller Biography Links Emil White The Library Live Music Archive Big Sur Pledge Contact Private Events Books Books to buy/read Katy Masuga, The Blue of Night Big Sur Stories Donate Blog Events! Events Lines Online Menu Home Home Henry Miller Biography Links Emil White The Library Live Music Archive Big Sur Pledge Contact Private Events Books Books to buy/read Katy Masuga, The Blue of Night Big Sur Stories Donate Blog Events! Events Lines Online Previous Next WELCOME! Choose your language, English or Spanish, in the upper right corner. ¡BIENVENIDOS! Elige tu idioma, Ingles o Español, en la esquina superior derecha. ________________ The Library is open 11AM to 5PM Wednesday thru Sunday. It is a good time to come up or down the coast for a visit. It’s wild and lonely! RY X Shot live here at the Library underneath the ancient towering redwood grove on September 18, 2020. The wind and trees were all in agreement. Don’t miss this stunning one-of-a-kind RY X performance. TICKETS HERE! Proceeds from the livestream event directly benefit the Henry Miller Memorial Library. Thank you for supporting independent music in independent rural spaces. Streaming June 18th through June 27th. (special thanks to RY X and (((folkYEAH))) ) WATCH & LISTEN TOO THE SHORT TRAILER BELOW Like many other businesses, non-profit or otherwise, we are having a hard time. Grants in the art world are hard to come by. Please consider one of the 4 ways to help on the right. Thank you. Help the Henry Miller Library. 1. Buy books form us. 2. Subscribe to our digest! 3. Rent the Library for your (elopement?) wedding. 4. Make a donation Good News: Three Big Sur authors with new books! Magnus had a conversation with each author. Listen below…. The Gazebo Learning Project by Jasmine Star Horan. www.silverpeakpress.com Interview over the phone… https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jasmine-Final-Mpeg.mp3 Quest for Eternal Sunshine by Myra Goodman. https://questforeternalsunshine.com/ Interview via Zoom… https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/07_02_20-Myra-Goodman-.wav Gordon by Jim Hunolt. The long awaited book on Gordon Newell! Interview in person… https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/05.21.20-Hunolt_Jim.mp3 Good News 2: Tropic of Cancer clocks in at # 4 of Bob Dylan’s all time favorite books. Read about it here! Quote from Carly Taylor’s article : Miller is a powerful author to turn to in our periods of hopelessness, for he can breed joy where others find only nihilism. He sees “a world without hope but no despair.” Interview with Stefan White (son of Library Founder Emil White) April 2020. Interview with Katy Masuga at Fontainebleau (near Paris). Ellis Paul at the Library (the last concert before the Corona Closure) Video of One man, One mic & One JS Bach! Edwin Huizinga plays! HM Library friend Al Rose just wrote a song. Listen HERE! Living artistically with Tropic of Cancer by Carly Taylor HERE! New book of poetry by Peter Serchuk! Master Sculptor and life-long Big Sur resident Jim Hunolt recently published the long awaited book on Gordon Newell titled GORDON. Magnus spoke with Jim about his friendship and admiration of Gordon and of course the long labor of love that resulted in this beautiful book! Also by Jim Hunolt: Elena’s Messages Jim Hunolt Sculpture w/ Gary Koeppel https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/05.21.20-Hunolt_Jim.mp3 Previous Next Music at the Library https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/fjohn.wav Visit the archive site for some videos and stills from the last several years of shows. Please share your memories! (audio clip above, Father John Misty) Share a memory Big Sur Short Film Festival https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/HenryMillerSudioIntroTk2.wav After 595 films from 58 countries, 12 years of film, we have decided to turn off the projector. Thanks to our jury, selection committee, sponsors and audience. We’ve had a wonderful adventure of film and international relations! Share a memory Stefan White and Magnus Torén sat down for a wonderful conversation (and a reunification after 31 years!) You will hear Stefan’s beautiful voice telling stories about family, Australia, Big Sur, Austria and much more. Some of the White family we speak of are in photographs that Stefan provided to the right: Stefan, Dan, Pat, Emil. We also touch on: The Morgenrath family. Robert Redford and Sonia Braga A mail-order bride Mother Living close to where Hitler grew up Biking in central Europe Sleeping with headhunters Being better than Giacometti! Dr Zeus….and, very important for Stefan, we spoke of his dedication and love for Prem Rawat. Stefan White Interview https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Stefan-White.mp3 Previous Next Ellis Paul came to visit and play on March 1st. Dinner courtesy Dana Carnazzo, wine, beer, conversation, music, poetry, politics and lots of laughter. This was also pre-Corona awareness so a lot of aerosol, fluids and skin exchanged unapologetically! It was a good night. Before Ellis started the show he and Magnus spoke on the microphone. It was probably in 1995 they first met. Ellis Paul was one of the very first performers in the history of the Library! Songwriting, life on the road, family, technology, getting older…we cover it. Here’s Ellis’ website. https://henrymiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Ellis-Paul-edited.mp3 Edwin Huizinga One man, one microphone, one violin . The inanimate become animate. Edwin is taming his unruly violin only to presently let it free onto, and into, a wild spin on Bach! At a respectful distance away we are lucky to have this happen in the midst of our sheltering regime. Please click below for a link to a short sample of Bach for Cello on Violin! Edwin is doing a musical event for Mother’s Day! https://bit.ly/2YArDWy Here’s Edwin’s website From Edwin: Ever since I was five years old, I have been playing the violin. I grew up in the forest, on a little farm, about twenty minutes outside of a small city called Guelph. What I think the current global fermata has done for many, is letting us reshape the way we think of many things, and to look back into our lives, and find that which truly gives comfort and solace. For me two of those things are music and nature. Now, when I think about playing music, and more than that – when I think about playing violin by myself, I inevitably turn to Bach at some point. Johann is my favorite composer of old. I truly believe he has much to offer to anyones imagination. So, I end up in the Redwoods, with my violin, playing violin, in one of the most special building I know, full of books, and memories, called the Henry Miller Memorial Library. I hope you enjoy. Said And Done by Al Rose When all is said and done Now that common sense is numb This story will be written in a cave The present and the future are just bastards of the past And the calendar just takes it day to day When the gravy boat delivers all the gravy to the port We celebrate by dancing in the rain We take a bit for us and then put some in a bowl We send it down the line by gravy train But the way this story goes, there are gamblers flashing gold With warmth that turns the water into ice The bakers shine the light, but the cowards cut the pie And those assholes always want another slice Chorus: The memories stand tall enough Tall enough to reach ‘em We’ll remember every lesson But not enough to teach ‘em So remember every touch And remember every smell And remember every shame And remember fare thee well Your decisive indecision is a ramble through the haze As you bring a nation gasping to its knees With clusterfuck precision you cut another maze Then you locked it up and threw away the keys Your fiction proved you right But the truth is much too bright Like a ribbon that has faded in the sun So you tried to take a turn and the fri...