Tristine Rainer

Diary keeping is presented as a form of therapy leading to selfunderstanding, self-acceptance, new insights into personal problems, creative inspiration, and inner liberation and harmony

How to Use a Journal for Self-guidance and Expanded Creativity

The New Diary

A Revealing Look at the Mentorship—and Manipulation—of Anaïs Nin In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anaïs Nin’s West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anaïs’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s confidences—including that of her bigamy—even after Anaïs Nin’s death and the passing of her husbands, until now. Set in the underground literary worlds of Manhattan and Los Angeles during the sixties and seventies, Tristine charts her coming of age under the guidance of the infamous Anaïs Nin: author of the erotic bestseller Delta of Venus, lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, and feminist icon of the sexual revolution. As an inexperienced college-bound girl from the San Fernando Valley, Tristine was dazzled by the sophisticated bohemian author and sought her instruction in becoming a woman. Tristine became a fixture of Anaïs’s inner circle, implicated in the mysterious author’s daring intrigues—while simultaneously finding her own path through love, lust, and loss. In what Kirkus calls a “spicy and saucy hybrid of memoir and novel,” Apprenticed to Venus brings to life a seductive and entertaining character —the pioneer whose mantra was, “A woman has as much right to pleasure as a man!” An intimate look at the intricacies—and risks—of the female mentor-protégé relationship, Tristine Rainer’s Apprenticed to Venus stories her deep friendship, for good or ill, with a pivotal historical figure.

My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin

Apprenticed to Venus

Provides practical coaching on writing long or short autobiographical narratives, including a history of autobiography and examples from such writers as Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Russell Baker

Discovering the "new Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature

Your Life as Story

Anaïs Nin

Satoshi Kanazawa

Paul Herron

Sarah Burghauser

Joel Enos

Dawn Kaczmar

Kim Krizan

Barbara Kraft

Rupert Pole

Benjamin Franklin, 5th

Anita Jarczok

Colette Standish

Harry Kiakis

Hugh Guiler

Sonya Blades

The Anais Nin Literary Journal

A Cafe in Space

Anais Nin

Eduardo Pineda

Steven Reigns

This is the final issue of a 15 volume series, and it contains excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished diary; previously unknown correspondence by Rupert Pole; essays on Nin, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Gonzalo More, Helba Huara, and Paco Miralles by scholars from around the world; interviews with John Teunissen, Nobuko Albery and Beatrice Commenge; memoirs, including one on Nin by Tristine Rainer; poetry, short fiction, rare photographs and artwork. Included is an index to all contributions to A Café in Space during its 15 year span and notes on this year's contributors.

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