Blogs about: Paul Bowles

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Just nod your head for "yes!"

sevenperfumes wrote 4 days ago: But then when he had got settled at the hotel, and they had started their little pattern of cafe lif … more →

Tags: General, Pontifications, "Painted bride Quarterly", sheltering sky, College, Creative Writing, D, Graduate School, housewife

Interview with Carolyn Cassady3 comments

gotheca wrote 4 days ago: Carolyn & Neal, 1947 Dean merely looked at Camille, pointed at his wrist, made the sign “f … more →

Tags: Great Authors, interviews, Allen Ginsberg, Ann Charters, Ann Maxwell, As Ever, Beat Generation, big sur, Carolyn Cassady

Concert Review: Paul Wallfisch, James Ross and Joe Benzola, Vera Beren's Gothic Chamber Blues Ensemble and Elisa Flynn at the Delancey, NYC 6/29/09

delarue wrote 2 weeks ago: Small Beast has taken to Mondays like a vulture on a carcass. The beef carcasses, i.e. hamburgers an … more →

Tags: Live Events, Music, music concert, New York City, Review, Reviews, small beast, Art Rock, botanica band

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.3 comments

Jesse Trussell wrote 4 weeks ago: “You know what?” he said with great earnestness. “I think we’re both afraid … more →

Tags: writing, the sheltering sky

Text-to-Screen Ratio: Naked Lunch Retrospective

lesismore wrote 1 month ago: (Editor’s note: As always, spoilers may abound for both versions here. Also, I have decided t … more →

Tags: Text-to-Screen Ratio, cut-up technique, David Cronenberg, Ian Holm, Joan Vollmer, Mugwump, Naked Lunch, Naked Lunch film, Peter Weller

The Sheltering Sky (1990)

Scott W. Black wrote 1 month ago: 57 … more →

Tags: adventure, Biography, Drama, Bernardo Bertolucci, Campbell Scott, Debra Winger, John Malkovich, the sheltering sky, Timothy Spall

Creating layers of meaning2 comments

gotheca wrote 1 month ago: “Break the jug, Peeker!” —John Gardner, The Wreckage of Agathon Peeker broke the j … more →

Tags: Deeper meaning, Fiction Writing Advice, Metaphor, beryl markham, Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People, Graham Greene, hamlet, Isak Denisen

An Embarrassment of Riches

delarue wrote 1 month ago: Small Beast was a mobscene the week before last. You could hardly move. Who knows just how large thi … more →

Tags: Live Events, Music, music concert, New York City, Review, Reviews, small beast, Art Rock, Barbez

Tree of Smoke

Bob W. wrote 1 month ago: Caffeinated and jittery, I’ve been on a ragged Denis Johnson high the last couple of months re … more →

Tags: Literature, denis johnson, jesus' son, malcolm lowry, the sheltering sky, tree of smoke, Under The Volcano

Hannibal Barca, c. 259 bce, A Fable1 comment

Andy Alexander wrote 2 months ago: I just read one of the most beautiful picture books I have ever seen. My friend Ahmad created it. T … more →

Tags: Poetry, book art, Contemporary Art, Art, Hannibal, UDP, Ugly Duckling Presse, Hannibal Barca, Children

March 2009

Joe wrote 3 months ago: Books bought: Sixty Stories, Donald Barthelme The Moviegoer, Walker Percy The Sheltering Sky, Paul … more →

Tags: Don DeLillo, donald barthelme, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Milan Kundera, Thomas Pynchon, Walker Percy

Excavating the bones of storytelling, part 2

gotheca wrote 3 months ago: But what about tragedies? You don’t get to the end of Romeo and Juliet and think, “What … more →

Tags: Fiction Writing Advice, Theory, Clarissa, death, Fiction Writing, Frank Focha, Jason, Mary Higgins Clark, medea

Paul Bowles Travel Writer Of Morocco & The Beat Generation

moroccotravelblog wrote 4 months ago: Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator born in Queens, Ne … more →

Tags: General, morocco travel, Tours to Morocco, Travel & Exploration, brion gysin, tangier

[Off-Brand] A Suitable Boy (1993)

Widmerpool wrote 4 months ago: Vikram Seth I was fretting that two off-list posts in one week was not quite the thing, particularly … more →

Tags: off-brand, First Editions, Lawrence Durrell, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, Tom Wolfe, Vikram Seth

Paul Bowles

fromlaurelstreet wrote 4 months ago: The Sheltering Sky (read 1980s) recommended I gave the movie a miss, because this book is so good it … more →

Tags: 20th Century, American, Author Rating: A

Book: The Sheltering Sky

sfrancini wrote 4 months ago: (From Amazon.com) “American novelist and short-story writer, poet, translator, classical musi … more →

Tags: Literature, the sheltering sky, Sahara Desert

paul bowles in morocco, and the strange ways of his internet avatar, webmaster kenneth!

peter wrote 6 months ago: “The landscape became constantly more dramatic. For two hours the trail followed a valley that … more →

Tags: American Literature, book cover art, excerpts & quotations, Morocco, 1

Over the precipice

Jenny wrote 6 months ago: The Professor in Paul Bowles’ A Distant Episode follows a dubious man out past the edge of a S … more →

Tags: Nature, Literature, "A Distant Episode", North Africa, Sahara

You ask...Why am I addicted to travel?

ramblinmanjimj wrote 8 months ago: Staring into the mouth of an active volcano in Nicaragua! I think I’ll let a few of my fellow … more →

Tags: Nicaragua, Central America, RV, rVing, Travel, Photography, Volcanos, Aldous Huxley, John C. Fremont


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