The Mental Flip Responsible for Henry Miller's Success After a Decade of Failure

Irreverence created "Tropic of Cancer"

In Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller describes the process of writing his first novel at-length. For three years he’d been firing messenger boys at random and promising jobs to women he wanted to fuck—what he called “working”—without an extended period of repose. He deserved a vacation, badly, yet when he finally took one it turned out to be more manic t…