Happy World Book Day! 🌍📚
Immerse yourself in the world of Paul Bowles' writing and discover his literary and musical legacy: www.paulbowles.org.
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Thanks to invaluable details offered by Paul Bowles's library we can follow the trail of his reading and see the ways it weaves through his writing process.
Explore Paul Bowles's library:
www.paulbowles.org/library
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Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1946. Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
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The Pool K III is Paul Bowles’s most significant work in #musiqueconcrète, a genre that uses recorded sounds as raw material. Composed in the late 1950s. Last release is by Cadmus Editions/Dom America. Fully available on streaming platforms: paulbowles.lnk.to/poolkiii
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For which of Paul Bowles's books would you drop everything and read?
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When Paul Bowles turned eight he began keeping an imaginary diary, which he illustrated. On the paulbowles's website you can see select pages of his Holograph Juvenilia Notebook.
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Paul Bowles publishes "The Scorpion" in 1945.
The short novel was inspired by his reading of indigenous Mesoamerican myths.
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Manuscript notebook with a transcription of an interview with Mohamed Choukri, c. 1975 (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums).
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A selection of travel photography by Paul Bowles himself is available to view on the Paul Bowles website.
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Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1945.
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
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On 4 December 1949, #TennesseeWilliams published an enthusiastic review of #TheShelteringSky in the New York Times Book Review. You can read the review on the #PaulBowles website: www.paulbowles.org/paul-bowles/....
Paul Bowles's hands by Cherie Nutting.
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Covers of Paul Bowles' books translated into different languages. You can find more in the library section of the website paulbowles.org.
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Quote from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
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Paul Bowles hardcover notebook with drafts for several stories (1976-1988)
Hardcover notebook (100 sheets, 15.5X21cm) containing notes and drafts of various texts (private collection).
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Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1944
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
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Handwritten notes for #incidentalmusic for #OscarWilde’s #Salome and #Euripides’s #Hippolytus, written for synthesizer and performed at productions of at the American School in Tangier in 1992 and 1993 respectively (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums).
Jane Auer was born today in 1917!
American writer and playwright, she married Paul Bowles in 1938.
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Quote from an interview with The New York Times in 1995.
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Which Paul Bowles book would you share with a friend?
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Patricia Highsmith first visited Tangier in 1988. On that occasion, a friend told her, "I hope you see Paul Bowles while you're there, because without Paul, Tangier wouldn't be Tangier."
... and she visited him.
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Paul Bowles reads "Baptism of Solitude": from the collection of essays Their Heads are Green and Their Hands Are Blue. Listen to the complete recording here: www.paulbowles.org/writings/Pau...
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Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1943
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
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A glimpse into the Paul Bowles Library!
Visit the website to see the full collection!
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A free and fearless spirit—one who made few concessions to convention.
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Quote from an article by Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Paul Bowles, published in Paul Bowles Music, Eos Music, New York, 1995. A collection of essays, articles & focusing on Paul Bowles's career as a composer.
Read it all on paulbowles.org website.
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Quote from: Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi
www.paulbowles.org
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This is the music score for 'Once a Lady Was Here', a song with lyrics and music composed by Paul Bowles in 1946.
The complete score can be found in the archive section of www.paulbowles.org.
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Paul Bowles's personal library includes over 3,000 volumes that he collected during the 50 years he lived in Tangier. His copious library is now available in digitized form for public consultation: www.paulbowles.org/library/visu....
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Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1942
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
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