Help us welcome Tristine Rainer as she signs her scintillating new book, Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anais Nin, which is a revealing look at the mentorship–and manipulation–of Anais Nin.
In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anais Nin’s West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anais’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s confidence–including that of her bigamy–even after Anais Nin’s death and the passing of her husbands, until now.
Set in the underground literary worlds of Manhattan and Los Angeles during the sixties and seventies, Tristine charts her coming-of-age under the guidance of the infamous Anais Nin: author of the erotic bestseller Delta of Venus, lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, and feminist icon of the sexual revolution. As an inexperienced college-bound girl from the San Fernando Valley, Tristine was dazzled by the sophisticated bohemian author and sought her instruction in becoming a woman. Tristine became a fixture of Anais’s inner circle, implicated in the mysterious author’s daring intrigues–while simultaneously finding her own path through love, lust, and loss. An intimate look at the intricacies–and risks–of the female mentor-protégé relationship, Tristine Rainer’s Apprenticed to Venus stories her deep friendship, for good or ill, with this pivotal historical figure.
Residing in California, Tristine Rainer is a recognized expert on diary and memoir writing and the author of two renowned classics on autobiographic writing continuously in print: The New Diary (with a preface by Anais Nin) and Your Life as Story. In addition to co-founding the UCLA Women’s Studies program and later writing and producing award-winning movies for television, Rainer taught memoir and creative nonfiction for eleven years in the USC Masters of Professional Writing Program.
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