The stories and novels of Anaïs Nin are highly distinctive creations of a groundbreaking writer who helped to define a feminine tradition in literature. Daring and determined, she broke through the barriers of convention to address such themes as in...

Anais Nin (ca. 1903-1977) is best known for her erotica and for her seven volumes of diaries published from 1966 to the end of her life. Nin's other works, which include novels and short stories, are greatly influenced by Surrealism, a movement initiated...

Anais Nin, author of fiction, criticism, and diaries, was born to artistic parents in Neuilly, France, outside Paris, on 21 February 1903. Her mother, Rosa Culmell Nin, a French-Dane, sang; her Spanish father, Joaquin, was a concert pianist and composer....

David and Ann Carlile didn't expect all the attention and excitement about a little blue bird with a white stripe on its wings. He knew it was something different, he just didn't know how unique. Try rare for the state. The...

I found Little Bird lying on a gritty, sunstruck pavement in the port of Patras one sweltering morning in June. I had been sent to that city by the British Council in Athens with a large contingent of English examiners, to conduct the...

The Polish ambassador to Iraq was slightly wounded and two civilians, including a body guard, were killed in a roadside bomb attack Wednesday, according to Polish government officials.Gen. Edward Pietrzyk was being treated for burns, according to Deputy Ambassador Waldemar Figaj, who spoke to The...

The Polish ambassador to Iraq was slightly wounded and two civilians, including a body guard, were killed in a roadside bomb attack Wednesday, according to Polish government officials.Gen. Edward Pietrzyk was being treated for burns, according to Deputy Ambassador Waldemar Figaj, who spoke to The...

Anaïs Nin, better known for her diaries but better sold for her pornography ("Delta of Venus"), has left us another peep show in "Little Birds," a volume of 13 short stories that threaten to stir the erotic imagination. In the preface to "Delta of Venus" she says that it was hunger that drove her and a number of starving writer and poet friends to collaborate on these droll tales….

Underneath the coarse brown cover [of Little Birds: Erotica] lies a treasure. Nin awakens the mind and senses with thirteen well-crafted tales. The settings range from a Parisian artist's studio to a moonlit beach. The combinations of lovers and settings mix the exotic with the erotic. Like a haiku poem, Nin captures with one image what other writers explore through endless words. The oriental quality is not surprising, since many of the stories draw upon material from the Kama-Sutra. Nin was suppose...