Henry Miller
Captain Xanadu And His Orbiting Orchestrions
1) Brooklyn Boy
2) The Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company
3) Meeting June
4) Paris on Nothing
5) Typewriter and Wine
6) Tropic Detour
7) Letters From Big Sur
8) Banned in Boston
9) Old Man in the Sun
10) Still Writing
Henry Miller: An Orbital Portrait in Words & Wine Captain Xanadu And His Orbiting Orchestrions
Strap in, pour something red, and set your controls for the heart of the Tropics. Captain Xanadu And His Orbiting Orchestrions launch their most literary mission yet: a ten-track space-age lounge voyage through the life of Henry Miller, the Brooklyn tailor's son who clocked out of the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company, lived Paris on nothing, and wrote the book that half of America tried to bury. Swinging brass, shimmering vibraphone, theremin swells, and a clattering typewriter rhythm section carry you from the stoops of Bushwick to the boulevards of the Left Bank, through a courtroom roll call of the banned and the bewildered, and out to the fog-wrapped cliffs of Big Sur. Along the way you'll meet June the taxi dancer, a publisher with cold feet, a chorus of scandalized censors, and one very contented old man treading water in the California sun.
Packed with puns, wordplay, and historically accurate wit, An Orbital Portrait in Words & Wine is a cocktail-hour tribute to a writer who never stopped typing, never stopped drinking in life, and never once agreed to be cut to measure. Banned in Boston. Beloved in orbit.
