{"id":761,"date":"2012-07-31T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"barbara-kraft-reads-from-her-new-e-book-anais-nin-the-last-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2012\/07\/31\/barbara-kraft-reads-from-her-new-e-book-anais-nin-the-last-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Kraft reads from her new e-book &#8220;Anais Nin:  The Last Days&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have chosen to reveal the intimacies of Ana\u00c3\u00afs Nin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last days as I witnessed them so that the story of her death is not lost. Everything comes back in the mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye. Everything comes back in the crucible of the heart. She remains in my psyche all these years later as the most refined and rarified human being I have ever encountered.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Thus begins Barbara Kraft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s memoir, Ana\u00c3\u00afs Nin: The Last Days. With her sometimes loving and sometimes raw prose, Kraft has captured the humanity, mortality, and essence of one of the twentieth century\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most celebrated and yet mysterious literary figures.<\/p>\n<p>As Noel Riley Fitch, author of Ana\u00c3\u00afs:The Erotic Life of Ana\u00c3\u00afs Nin, writes of Kraft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An intimate and beautiful portrayal of the final years and painful death of Ana\u00c3\u00afs Nin \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This compelling memoir is honest, critical, and full of perceptive insights into the relationships between Nin and her men.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dOf all the young women I&#8217;ve worked with you are the one most like me,&#8221; Nin told Kraft as she lay dying.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Alias Books East, the host of the event, was given &#8220;The Best Of L.A. 2010&#8221; thumbs up by L.A. Weekly.&nbsp; Alias Books East is located in Atwater Village.&nbsp; www.aliasbookseast.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-761\" data-postid=\"761\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-761 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have chosen to reveal the intimacies of Ana\u00c3\u00afs Nin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last days as I witnessed them so that the story of her death is not lost. Everything comes back in the mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye. Everything comes back in the crucible of the heart. She remains in my psyche all these years later as the most refined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13,14,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}