From Your Capricorn Friend: Henry Miller and the Stroker, 1978-1980

by Henry Miller, Irving Stettner (Introduction)

Presents the best of Miller's contributions to Stroker magazine, which included prose, letters, and drawings ranging in subject matter from his daily activities to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Prize acceptance speech

101 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.

Reviews

[Stephanie Held · Rating 5 out of 5]

Certain pages (75) filled me with so much love, I had to stop reading so I could feel it all. Hyper-aware, abstract, and earthy-spiritual, he brings you to the brims.

[Jim Beatty · Rating 5 out of 5]

An insane lyrical impulse to remain light and carefree, always looking for some thing to wonder or marvel at, or love, or laugh at, but always remaining illogical and joyous in a world gone mad with too much logic, seriousness, science, newspapers, war and destruction. - Dada
The time of the hyena is upon us. - Zulu saying

[Brendan · Rating 5 out of 5]

These letters and brief essays, written during the last years of Miller’s life, show that he never lost his sharp wit and biting intellect. This is a great little collection.

[Krista Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Matthew Stolte · Rating 5 out of 5]

at end of life enthusiasm!

[Paul Grimsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's small but it has many rewards within its pages. It makes a literary hero even more human. It is to use a word that has lost much of its value but is very fitting: charming.