Michael Phillips came to Los Angeles like any other wide-eyed writer in search of opportunity. Instead, the English writer found himself lost in a city littered with laptops and writers at every ...

Nearly a half-century after her death, writer and diarist Anaïs Nin is taking over the Mission. While she may be more closely associated with Paris, New York and Los Angeles, Nin also lived in San ...

Scott Simon talks about the life and love of writer Anais Nin. She had two husbands — one in New York and the other in Los Angeles, Rupert Pole, who died this month in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles ...

“We don’t see things as they are,” declares an opening title of Anaïs: A Dance Opera, “we see them as we are.” The statement, as any habitué of Tumblr or Pinterest can attest, is a virally quoted ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. I can trace my fascination with con artists to 2002, when a baby-faced ...

Famed diarist of the 1940s, Anaïs Nin, lived to the age of 74, despite her hard-living, drinking, and her surprising obsession with sex. Leaving Paris for America at the start of World War II, Mirages ...

I first came across the Anais Nin connection while reading Michelle Zack’s wonderful history, “Southern California Story: Seeking the Better Life in Sierra Madre.” When asked about Sierra Madre’s most ...

Anais Nin spent a lot of time trying to write to the bottom of her self. She obsessed over her diary, calling it her "opium pipe," and although friends, family, and doctors urged her to put it down ...

Léonie Bischoff, trans. from the French by Jenna Allen. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (200p) ISBN 978-1-68396-759-0 Angoulême audience award winner Bischoff’s English-language debut is an exhilarating if ...