Soft Porn on Roller Skates

The review on the front page of Sunday's New York Times Book Review is about a new biography of Henry Miller timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Tropic of Cancer in the United States.  The book had been published in Paris in 1934 by a "soft porn"  publisher and banned as obscene in America until "a landmark legal victory overturned the ban in 1961."  It then became a bestseller. (Of course.)

 I've never read the Tropic of Cancer, but I remember when it was published.  I was 11, and my dad directed me down the street to my piano teacher's house to pick up a book in a brown paper bag from her husband.  I went on my roller skates, picked up the book,  and dutifully handed it over, uninspected, to  my dad.  I did look at the title on the cover, but that was it.

The book disappeared from the house the next day, and I figured my dad took it to his office at San Jose State, where he may have read it on his lunch hour.