Where Would Anaïs Nin Go Now?

Five cities for the sensual, curious, and slightly unruly.

Anaïs Nin knew how to make a life feel like literature.

Paris. Diaries. Psychoanalysis. Artists. Affairs. Obsession. Rooms full of conversation. A relentless curiosity about what happened beneath the respectable surface of things.

So this is not a historical Anaïs Nin itinerary.

It’s an imagined one.

If Nin arrived today with a notebook, a good coat, several complicated relationships, and absolutely no intention of behaving sensibly, where might she go?

I have some ideas.