here is the inimitable henry miller 18911980 speaking candidly about himself and his robust fictiontropic of cancer tropic of capricorn the airconditioned nightmare in this enticing collection he argues convincingly for the things that have mattered in his full and exhilarating life he and his interviewers cover the range of his engrossing works that stirred obscenity charges as well as his life as an expatriate his loves and conquests his goals his beliefs and his probing insights into the culture that produced him and repulsed himthese conversations serve as a retrospective visit with one of americas most distinctively opinionated most singularly identifiable and most invigorating authors