Status Updates From Winter of Artifice & House ...

"The Voice" not only deals with lesbian relationships in a very explicit way for a mainstream novel from the 1930's, but is also one of the single trippiest and most mystical pieces I have read by Anaïs Nin so far. Might even qualify as non-standard occult fiction?

I also got a guy at the park interested in reading Anaïs Nin just by describing this to him.

Even as early in her career as this, it's just uncanny how much more beautifully and evocatively Anaïs Nin wrote than 95% of other authors I have read. The title short story in "Winter of Artifice" is also clearly inspired by her own strained relationship with her father.