Paul Bowles outside of Tangier
“In the spring of
1982 I was working as a deck machinist on a cable-laying ship based out
of Norfolk, Virginia. In a copy of the Village Voice
that I’d picked up while on shore leave, I saw an advertisement for a
writing workshop with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, scheduled for
that summer. I immediately sent away for an application form, and when
it arrived, I carefully filled it out and put it in an envelope along
with a couple of short stories, the quality of which, according to the
enclosed information brochure, would be the determining factor in my
being accepted. I gave the envelope to the purser and it went off with
the next batch of ship’s mail. My hopes of being accepted were not high.
...”
Empty Mirror
Bowles’ study in the the Immeuble Itesa.2007 November: The Authorized Paul Bowles Web Site, 2010 February: Paul Bowles (1910-1999), 2011: January: Halfmoon (1996), 2013 July: Tellus #23 - The Voices of Paul Bowles, 2014 January: Let It Come Down: the Life of Paul Bowles (1998), 2014 March: The Sheltering Sky (1949), 2015 January: Things Gone & Things Still Here, 2015 October: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles – a cautionary tale for tourists, 2015 November: The Rolling Stone Interview (May 23, 1974), 2016 June: Let It Come Down (1952), 2016 December: Paul Bowles & the Music of Morocco, 2017 July: Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles, 2018 July: The Sheltering Sound, 2019 September: Jane Bowles, 2019 December: So Why Did I Defend Paul Bowles?, 2020 June: A Distant Episode (1947), 2020 September: Paul Bowles in Exile - Jay McInerney
No comments:
Post a Comment