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Volume 8 of A Cafe in Space, the only current journal dedicated to the life and work of diarist and novelist Anais Nin, contains striking letters between Nin and Hugh Guiler shortly before her death, and between Rupert Pole and Guiler shortly after her death. The letters reveal a need for Nin to emotionally split from Guiler, her husband of 53 years, and how Guiler and Pole, with whom Nin was living, managed to work together promoting Nin's work after her death. They also clear up any misconceptions about whether Guiler knew about Pole in light of the great lengths to which Nin webt in order to keep him in the dark. Also included in this issue are articles by scholars from around the world regarding Nin, her writing and sense of fashion, filmmaker Maya Deren, the movie Henry and June, as well as a look at Nin's "father-in-law," Reginald Pole, the renowned Shakespearean actor.An excerpt from Barbara Kraft's memoir Anais Nin: The Last Days gives us a look at Nin's final illness as told by an intimate friend.