I knew I wouldn’t ever trade all this whirling about my head for Russia or heaven or anything on earth.
—Henry Miller, Reflections
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Henry Miller’s Black Spring – Always Merry and Bright!
Initially published in 1936, Black Spring was banned in the U.S. for almost 30 years as obscene, suffering the same fate as Tropic of Cancer, which was published two years earlier, and Tropic of Capricorn, which was published two years later. It was only as a result of Grove Press’s sheer doggedness in the early 1960s in appealing the obscenity rulings that the U.S. Supreme Court finally overturned them, and declared Miller’s works to be literature in 1964.
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