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Miller spent his early years in Williamsburg on 662 Driggs Avenue and in Bushwick on 1062 Decatur Street — which he would continually refer to as “the street of early sorrows.” His first digs as a married adult were on 244 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, but after ditching his wife for a dancer named June, Henry became a man of many residences. Among those was an apartment on Henry Street near the corner of Love Lane (really), where he, June, and her lover Jean Kronski all lived together. After June and Jean sailed for Paris, Henry “broke every piece of furniture in the apartment,” then he started writing in earnest. Miller penned three novels during those early years in Brooklyn, including Crazy Cock (first called Lovely Lesbians). But it wasn’t until June sent him off to Paris, alone, and he struck up an affair with Anais Nin, that he came up with something someone would publish. That book was Tropic of Cancer. In 1935 Miller returned to Brooklyn and took Nin on snowy night tour of his now “tremendously” changed Fourteenth Ward. He would rarely visit again. (via Flavorwire » Brooklyn Goes Literary: 5 True Stories from Its Famous Authors) (from/in celebration of Evan Hughes’ Literary Brooklyn) I have a feeling there are some other Bushwickians out there on their own “street of early sorrows,” lovely lesbians et al.

Miller spent his early years in Williamsburg on 662 Driggs Avenue and in Bushwick on 1062 Decatur Street — which he would continually refer to as “the street of early sorrows.” His first digs as a married adult were on 244 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, but after ditching his wife for a dancer named June, Henry became a man of many residences. Among those was an apartment on Henry Street near the corner of Love Lane (really), where he, June, and her lover Jean Kronski all lived together. After June and Jean sailed for Paris, Henry “broke every piece of furniture in the apartment,” then he started writing in earnest. Miller penned three novels during those early years in Brooklyn, including Crazy Cock (first called Lovely Lesbians). But it wasn’t until June sent him off to Paris, alone, and he struck up an affair with Anais Nin, that he came up with something someone would publish. That book was Tropic of Cancer. In 1935 Miller returned to Brooklyn and took Nin on snowy night tour of his now “tremendously” changed Fourteenth Ward. He would rarely visit again. (via Flavorwire » Brooklyn Goes Literary: 5 True Stories from Its Famous Authors) (from/in celebration of Evan Hughes’ Literary Brooklyn)

I have a feeling there are some other Bushwickians out there on their own “street of early sorrows,” lovely lesbians et al.

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