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This book is an advance segment of the memoirs of the occasionally printable author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, and it makes a readable, sometimes hilarious appetizer to a more thorough work scheduled to come out early next year under the title Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sour Orange Juice | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Africans, regardless of color, in which each would have equal rights and-as he fulfilled certain requirements-a basic vote. Today, Capri corn's 5,000 members-about equally divided between colored and white-confine their work to the British lands between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn (the two Rhodesias and Nyasaland, Kenya and Tanganyika).* But they have designs on the whole continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: The Capricorn Idea | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Hughes was warmly received until he started taking photographs and giving the tin containers for his tropic-pack film to the black children. Their parents snatched the shining tin away, fearing it was a whiteman's charm. An old man thumped Hughes's chest and cried: "You come to pay respects to Lenshina, all right. But don't come bring silver magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

Miller's fame rests on Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, jubilantly riotous narratives whose sometimes hilarious smut made them contraband barracks-bag souvenirs of France for countless G.I.s. Tropic of Cancer went off like a time bomb in the literary world of 1934. A generation wearied of polite fiction was offered great gobs of something called Life. Just as history seemed to be jostling Europe to a new war, the author of Tropic offered to abolish history. The book displayed life as a perpetual riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Pal Joeys | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...early essays for the feature page of the Chicago Tribune-possibly the strangest newspaper collaboration since Marx used to sign Engels' pieces for the New York Tribune. Perles set Miller up to meals and a hotel room, and thus, Perles announces grandly, "the stage was set for the Tropic of Cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Pal Joeys | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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