Henry Miller's novels censored and banned in US due to their sexually explicitly content," FileRoom.org, 2001.

What could have excited them so? A moment before, the hat on her head had seemed nothing but a joke. Was excitement really a mere step away from laughter? Gordon, William A. The Mind and Art of Henry Miller, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which has materials about Miller from his first wife and their daughter. [74] a b c d Anderson, Christiann (March 2004). "Henry Miller: Born to be Wild". BonjourParis . Retrieved September 30, 2011. Miller’s sprawling masterpiece was launched by the Obelisk Press, a French publisher of soft pornography as Tropic of Cancer, with a cover by Maurice Girodias, who would later become famous as the leading French publisher of erotic literature. Wrapped in an explicit warning (“Not to be imported into Great Britain or USA”), it set a new gold standard for graphic language and explicit sexuality. From the outset, Miller’s “barbaric yawp” shook US censorship and inflamed American literary sensibility to its core. Tropic would remain banned for a generation, by which time it had become part of postwar cultural folklore, smuggled into the US wrapped in scarves and underwear. Rarely has a book had such thrilling and desperate underground beginnings. a b Carolyn Kellogg, "Henry Miller's last wife, Hoki Tokuda, remembers him, um, fondly?", Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2011. Parrish, Shane (August 11, 2014). "Henry Miller on Turning 80, Fighting Evil, And Why Life is the Best Teacher". Farnham Street Blog . Retrieved August 17, 2014.

In other works written during his time in California, Miller was widely critical of consumerism in America, as reflected in Sunday After the War (1944) and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945). His Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, published in 1957, is a collection of stories about his life and friends in Big Sur. [46] Miller (1959) Martin, Jay. Always Merry and Bright: The Life of Henry Miller, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1978. ISBN 0-88496-082-X Kraft, Barbara. Henry Miller: The Last Days, San Antonio, TX: Sky Blue Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0988917088 Shifreen, Lawrence J. (1979). Henry Miller: a Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Rowman & Littlefield. pp.75–77. ISBN 9780810811713. ...Miller's metamorphosis and his acceptance of the cosmos.

Jong, Erica. The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller, New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1993. ISBN 0-394-58498-8

Still, when I’m not engaged in sexual activity, it makes me sad to think that my arousal is based in crude animality. On the most basic level, there is little difference between my fantasy life and a lion’s mating rituals: male finds desirable female; subdues; ejaculates. Yet I want sex to be a shared delight so strong it releases me from the strictures of everyday living. So the urge to dramatize poses of degradation is what Miller calls “a sultry, passionate rebellion” against the fact that one’s needs do not result in what one wants. I will always want sex to be more than the physical act of intercourse it will always insist on being.

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What happens when a girl fresh off a breakup enlists two male friends to help make a fantasy real? Read the whole story here. Everyone who read February’s issue of Cosmo got a great reminder of all the hot, hot sex in the movies. But what about sexy scenes in literature? All of these excerpts are from books that are considered literary, and they’re all so steamy they’ll make you want to undo a button or two. Henry Miller: Prophet der Lüste ( Henry Miller: Prophet of Desire), a biographical documentary TV movie in 2017 by a German director Gero von Boehm, which also features Erica Jong, Brassaï, and Anaïs Nin.