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The Best Smut You'll Ever Read (Ep. 43 - Anais Nin)
🕑 Added 2016-01-14 09:37:30 +0000 UTC On any average day, how many people are you? There's morning-you, when your eyes are just barely open and your mood is grumpy. There's work-you, proficient and capable. There's going-out-you, relaxed and maybe a little reckless. There might be family-you, and artist-you, and shy-you and brave-you. So many yous in just one body!My guest this week is Steven Reigns. Among his many yous is the first city poet of West Hollywood. There's one writer who's had a profound impact on Steven's artistic identity, his personal identity, and even his sexual identity. He discovered Anais Nin work at a pivotal time in his life, when he felt pulled in multiple directions and was unsure what direction his life could take. It was thanks to a lucky loan of a book that Anais appeared to point the way.
And hey -- I'd love it if you would join me for a live online videochat this weekend. I know there are a bunch of folks listening, and I'd really like to get to know you. It's going to be this Saturday, January 16, at noon Pacific Time on my YouTube channel. You can follow me on Twitter @mattbaume to get the link. Hope to see you there!
And if you'd like to see my guest Steven Reigns, he's performing with four other artists at the show"The Allure of Anais Nin" on January 29 at 7pm, at Antioch Community Hall in Santa Barbara.
By the way, you might've noticed that unlike most episodes of Sewers Of Paris, this episode is flagged as "explicit." Just a heads up that our conversation starts off tasteful, but we really earn that rating by the end.
This episode's permanent home: http://www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shownotes/2016/1/13/the-best-smut-youll-ever-read-ep-34-anais-nin
And listen to Anais speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-dRf7Zxf8Q
Comments
I wonder if Dorothy and Anaïs ever did meet. They were alive and around the same age bracket.
Matt Baume
I KNOW!!! She must've been the life of every party she went to. I want to be friends with her + Dorothy Parker + Oscar Wilde.
It's actually funny- for the entire podcast when you guys were talking about her I was picturing someone who was alive and young in the 70s/80s. I don't know if either of you mentioned when she lived (if you did I missed it) but was shocked when I looked her up on Wikipedia and saw that she was actually born in 1903. The woman you described seems decades ahead of the curve.
Matt Baume
Yes, do check her out! You can really get lost in that prose, like wandering into a forest.
This is the first I've ever heard of Anaïs Nin. She's fascinating! Thanks to you and Steven for that new piece of info.
