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200:, Queens, New York City, as the only child of Rena (née Winnewisser) and Claude Dietz Bowles, a dentist. His childhood was materially comfortable, but his father was a cold and domineering parent, opposed to any form of play or entertainment, and feared by both his son and wife. According to family legend, Claude had tried to kill his newborn son by leaving him exposed on a window-ledge during a snowstorm. The story may not be true, but Bowles believed it was and that it encapsulated his relationship with his father. Warmth in his childhood was provided by his mother, who read 32: 1493:, and others, "show exceptional skill and imagination in capturing the mood, emotion, and ambience of each play to which he was assigned." Bowles said that such incidental music allowed him to present "climaxless music, hypnotic music in one of the exact senses of the word, in that it makes its effect without the spectator being made aware of it." At the same time he continued to write concert music, assimilating some of the melodic, rhythmic, and other stylistic elements of 642:, immediately prior to Morocco's gaining independence and sovereignty in 1956. In it, he charted the relationships among three immigrants and a young Moroccan: John Stenham, Alain Moss, Lee Veyron, and Amar. Reviewers noted that the novel marked a departure from Bowles's earlier fiction in that it introduced a contemporary political theme, the conflict between Moroccan nationalism and French colonialism. The UK edition (Macdonald) was published in January 1957. 623:

life is predicated upon violence, that the entire structure of what we call civilization, the scaffolding that we've built up over the millennia, can collapse at any moment, then whatever I write is going to be affected by that assumption. The process of life presupposes violence, in the plant world the same as the animal world. But among the animals only man can conceptualize violence. Only man can enjoy the idea of destruction.

962: 1512:. The jury gave the following citation: "Paul Bowles is a storyteller of the utmost purity and integrity. He writes of a world before God became man; a world in which men and women in extremis are seen as components in a larger, more elemental drama. His prose is crystalline and his voice unique. Among living American masters of the short story, Paul Bowles is sui generis." 5282: 1321:; it is archived in the US Library of Congress, Reference No. 72-750123. The Archival Manuscript Material (Collection) contains 97 x 2-track 7" reel-to-reel tapes, containing approximately sixty hours of traditional folk, art and popular music, one box of manuscripts, 18 photographs, and a map, along with the 2-LP recording called 1026:

trading center, with a population made up of Berber, Arab, Spanish, French and other Europeans, speaking Spanish, French, Berber and Arabic, and professing a variety of religions. Politically it was under the control of a consortium of foreign powers, including the United States. Bowles was entranced by the city's culture.

1128:, Bowles never received any formal instruction in music, despite the best efforts of Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson to persuade him otherwise. However, the self-taught composer, with assistance from Thomson, found success in New York as a producer of incidental music for the theatre. He collaborated with the likes of 887:. Bowles's music was overlooked and mostly forgotten for more than a generation, but in the 1990s, a new generation of American musicians and singers became interested in his work again. Art song enthusiasts savor what are described as "charming, witty pieces." In 1994, Bowles was visited and interviewed by writer 1235:

in Paris, with the presentation of a live concert performance, and at which the then 83-year-old Paul Bowles was in attendance. The program included a number of Bowles's original songs and pieces for piano, plus musical tributes and portraits of the composer by Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, and

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I sent it out to Doubleday and they refused it. They said, "We asked for a novel." They didn't consider it a novel. I had to give back my advance. My agent told me later they called the editor on the carpet for having refused the books – only after they saw that it was selling fast. It only had

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Following Virgil Thomson's retirement from his critic's post in 1954, reminiscing on his wish Paul Bowles had taken over the position, Bowles remarked, "I don't think I could have handled it, any more than I could have followed a career in composition. I lacked the musical training that and Aaron

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Yes, I suppose. The violence served a therapeutic purpose. It's unsettling to think that at any moment life can flare up into senseless violence. But it can and does, and people need to be ready for it. What you make for others is first of all what you make for yourself. If I'm persuaded that our

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ranked the short stories as "among the best ever written by an American", writing: "the floor to this ramshackle civilization that we have built cannot bear much longer our weight. It was Bowles's genius to suggest the horrors which lie beneath that floor, as fragile, in its way, as the sky that

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When Bowles had first visited Tangier with Aaron Copland in 1931, they were both outsiders to what they perceived as an exotic place of unfamiliar customs. They were not bound by any local rules, which varied among the many ethnic groups. Tangier was a Moroccan and international city, a longtime

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Visitors in 1998 reported that Bowles's wit and intellect endured. He continued to welcome visitors to his apartment in Tangier but, on the advice of doctors and friends, limited interviews. One of the last was an interview with Stephen Morison, Jr., a friend teaching at the American School of

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magazine commented that the ends visited upon the two main characters "seem appropriate but by no means tragic", but that "Bowles scores cleanly with his minor characters: Arab pimps and prostitutes, French officers in garrison towns, a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists—mother & son." In

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In 1988, when Bowles was asked in an interview about his social life, he replied, "I don't know what a social life is ... My social life is restricted to those who serve me and give me meals, and those who want to interview me." When asked in the same interview how he would summarize his

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Little by little I was aware of there being atmospheres which I could only portray by writing about them. I was unable to express my emotions in their entirety through music. My music was joyful as I was myself. The more nocturnal side to my personality, I managed to express through

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Instrumentalists and singers have come into being in lieu of chroniclers and poets, and even during the most recent chapter in the country's evolution – the war for independence and the setting up of the present regime – each phase of the struggle has been celebrated in

631:(John Lehmann, London, February 1952), in North Africa, specifically Tangier. It explored the disintegration of an American (Nelson Dyar) who was unprepared for the encounter with an alien culture. The first American edition by Random House was published later that same month. 442:

Bowles has frequently been featured in anthologies as a gay writer, although he regarded such categories as both absurd and irrelevant. After a brief sojourn in France, the couple were prominent among the literary figures of New York throughout the 1940s. They briefly lived in

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to work on the novel. He later said, "I wrote in bed in hotels in the desert." He drew inspiration from personal experience, noting years later that, "Whatever one writes is in a sense autobiographical, of course. Not factually so, but poetically so." He titled the novel

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Critics have described his music, in contrast, "as full of light as the fiction of dark ... almost as if the composer were a totally different person from the writer." During the early 1930s, Bowles studied composition (intermittently) with

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made me determined to continue improvising on the piano when my father was out of the house, and to notate my own music with an increasing degree of knowing that I had happened upon a new and exciting mode of expression." Bowles attended

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The US Library of Congress Recordings were inaugurated to act as a "repository for ethnographic documentation appealing to folklorists and cultural documentarians working in this country and in foreign lands as well."

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Volume one opens with pieces inspired by Latin American themes, evocative of the composer's interest in the culture and his fluency in the Spanish language. The second of the two volumes closes with arrangements of

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In addition to his chamber and stage compositions, Bowles published fourteen short story collections, several novels, three volumes of poetry, numerous translations, numerous travel articles, and an autobiography.

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By his return in 1947 the city somewhat changed, but he still found it intriguing. In 1955, anti-European riots erupted as Moroccans sought independence. In 1956, the city was returned to full Moroccan control.

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Paul Bowles lived for 52 of his 88 years in Tangier. He became strongly identified with the city and symbolized American immigrants. Obituary writers typically linked his life to his residency there.

6115: 1223:, Bowles struck his first blow for independence. In time this break from the composition of music would see Bowles's earlier exploits overshadowed completely by his acclaim as a writer of prose. 618:

In an interview 30 years later, Bowles responded to an observation that almost all of the characters in "The Delicate Prey" were victimized by either physical or psychological violence. He said:

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For Copland the allure of Bowles's music would never diminish. In later years he was recorded as having said, "Paul Bowles' music is always fresh; I've never known him to write a dull piece."

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There are those who refuse to see in Bowles anything more than a dilettante. Bowles himself persists in adopting a militantly non-professional air in relation to all music, including his own.

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I was a composer for as long as I've been a writer. I came here because I wanted to write a novel. I had a commission to do it. I was sick of writing music for other people –

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Bowles died of heart failure on November 18, 1999, at the Italian Hospital in Tangier, aged 88. He had been ill for some time with respiratory problems. His ashes were buried in

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magazine. On June 6, 1999, Irene Herrmann, the executrix of the Paul Bowles Music Estate, interviewed him to focus on his musical career; this was published in September 2003.

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In the autumn of 1968, invited by friend Oliver Evans, Bowles was a visiting scholar for one semester at the English Department of the San Fernando Valley State College, (now

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In 1957, Jane Bowles had a mild stroke, which marked the beginning of a prolonged decline in her health. Her condition preoccupied Paul Bowles until Jane's death in 1973.

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It is music that comes from a fresh personality, music full of charm and melodic invention, at times surprisingly well made in an instinctive and non-academic fashion.

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Only in the decade before his death was there a renewed interest in his musical output from the 1930s and '40s. This movement may have culminated in May 1994, at the

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However, the precocity of Bowles's early musical efforts would later belie a lack of professional training and discipline. Copland had tried in New York to teach him

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In the 1960s Bowles began translating and collecting stories from the oral tradition of native Moroccan storytellers. His most noteworthy collaborators included

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Paul Bowles referred to Tangier as "a place where it is still hard to find a piano in tune." Regarding his establishment as an author in Morocco, Bowles said:

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Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the

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rituals. Bowles realised that modern culture would inevitably change and influence the practice of traditional music, and he wanted to preserve some of it.

393:. Bowles later made Morocco his full-time home, and it inspired many of his short stories. From Tangier he returned to Berlin, where he met British writers 6120: 5960: 599:(John Lehmann, London, August 1950), it omitted two of Bowles's most famous short stories, "Pages From Cold Point" and "The Delicate Prey". British critic 2715:, "Sheheriar and Sheherazade" by Mohamed Choukri, "The Half Brothers" by Larbi Layachi, "The Lute" by Mohammed Mrabet, and "The Night Before Thinking" by 787:

based in Tangier. It featured many new, as well as established authors. Bowles's work was also represented, including his story "Afternoon with Antaeus."

365:) was panned by New York critics. (Bowles's first-known composition was completed earlier in Berlin: an adaptation as piano music of some vocal pieces by 6050: 6040: 4625: 143:, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel 5980: 5965: 923: 6130: 6125: 6025: 5970: 5950: 5851: 2384: 6105: 6020: 770: 6155: 6150: 6145: 6110: 5727: 5379: 2489: 607:

had advised him that if they were included in the collection, distribution and/or censorship difficulties might ensue. The American edition by

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At the insistence of his parents, Bowles returned to studies at the University of Virginia but left after one semester to return to Paris with

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In the summers of 1980 and 1982, Bowles conducted writing workshops in Morocco, at the American School of Tangier (under the auspices of the

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during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles's home for the remainder of his life. He came to symbolize American immigrants in the city.

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includes an entire wing devoted to Paul Bowles. In 2010, they received a donation of furniture, photographs and documents compiled by

1485:." Returning to New York in the mid-30s, Bowles became one of the preeminent composers of American theater music, producing works for 343:. By July, he returned to New York and worked at Duttons Bookshop in Manhattan, where he began work on an unfinished book of fiction, 5533: 6055: 5985: 5719: 5703: 5330: 5261: 5226: 5207: 5174: 5161: 5141: 5128: 5108: 5095: 5082: 5069: 5056: 5020: 5007: 4990: 4977: 4964: 4951: 4925: 4912: 4886: 4718: 3007: 2989: 2971: 2957: 2943: 2918: 2465: 2431: 1273:. The latter three arrangements were uncovered in the Gold and Fizdale Collection, held in the Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, 1009: 75: 1269:(1946), set for piano duet by Dr. Andrey Kasparov, and three miscellaneous pieces, set for two pianos by the American piano duo of 6075: 6065: 6045: 6035: 6030: 4511: 4421: 4075: 4041: 1189:. Bowles was well-suited to the work, according to Thomson, "because he wrote clearly and because he had the gift of judgment." 420:

In 1937, Bowles returned to New York. Over the next decade, he established a solid reputation as a composer, collaborating with

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commented that the book was like a summer thunderstorm, "pulsing with interior flashes of fire". The book quickly rose to the

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While Bowles was concentrating on his career as a writer, he composed incidental music for nine plays presented by the

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over use of the piano for composing, and other housemates over their noisy bedroom fantasies. Bowles also worked under

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in his novel after him.) The next year, Bowles returned to North Africa, traveling through other parts of Morocco, the

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Warnow, Catherine; Weinreich, Regina (1993) , "Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider", in Caponi, Gena Dagel (ed.),

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The Short Story in Midcentury America: Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams

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in New York). These were considered successful. Among several students who have become successful authors are

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It was during the autumn of 1930 in Paris that Bowles began work on his own first musical composition, the

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to him – it was to the latter that he later attributed his own desire to write stories, such as "

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Bowles had thought of himself first as a poet, having published some verse in his brief time at the

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During these years, Bowles also worked at translating Moroccan authors and story-tellers, including

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and others. Bowles's interest in music also dated from his childhood, when his father bought a

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He also translated writers whose original work was written in Spanish, Portuguese and French:

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Personally I much prefer an "amateur" like Bowles to your "well-trained" conservatory product.

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achievement, he said, "I've written some books and some music. That's what I've achieved."

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In 1995, Bowles made his final return to New York, invited to a "Paul Bowles Festival" at

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In 1945, Bowles began writing prose again, beginning with a few short stories including "

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into a film in which Bowles has a cameo role and provides partial narration. 132 minutes

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and its American Classics division, released two CDs of Bowles's complete piano works.

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The Dream at the End of the World: Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier

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1997 – "Dear Paul - Dear Ned: The Correspondence of Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem"

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and returned to Tangier in the warmer months. He stayed in Sri Lanka most winters.

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Music of Morocco: The Paul Bowles Recordings for the American Folklife Collection

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followed in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. In 1951, Bowles was introduced to the

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Bowles died in 1999 at the age of 88. His ashes are buried near family graves in

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composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of

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Carr, Virginia Spencer "Paul Bowles, A Life", Scribner, New York 2004, p358, n29

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Bowles commented on the political aspects of the practice of traditional music:

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Bowles had a cameo appearance at the beginning and end of the film version of

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McInerney, Jay (1993) , "Paul Bowles in Exile", in Caponi, Gena Dagel (ed.),

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During the late 1950s, Morocco achieved independence. With a grant from the

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Bowles could read at age 3 and was writing stories by age 4. Soon, he wrote

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poetry and music. In 1922, at age 11, he bought his first book of poetry,

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before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with

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In 1950, Bowles published his first collection of short stories. Titled

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in England, in September 1949, after Doubleday rejected the manuscript.

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but soon left the organization after Bowles was ejected from the party.

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The Fiction of Paul Bowles: The Soul is the Weariest Part of the Body

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Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries

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However, his music of the time, demonstrated by a propensity for

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on several of the Stein poems associated with her opera libretto

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Photographs – "How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert?"

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best-seller list, going through three printings in two months.

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in the summer of 1931. They took a house on the mountain above

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Paul Bowles is considered one of the artists to have shaped

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Page 1 of a 9-page booklet contained within the double LP

3519:"Bowles letter of 9 June 1931 to Edouard Roditi, Berlin," 935:

Tangier. It was featured in the July/August 1999 issue of

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McInerney, Jay (September 1985), "Paul Bowles in Exile",

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Selected discography of musical compositions and readings

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The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House

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The total collection of this recorded music is known as

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Paul Bowles was a pioneer in the field of North African

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may not follow Knowledge (XXG)'s policies or guidelines

1523:, a permanent resident of Tanger and friend of Bowles. 5169:, edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann (2003), 4016:"Tennessee Williams. Gavin Young and Rodrigo Rey Rosa" 1599:

Huapango – Cafe Sin Nombre – Huapango-El Sol

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Renewal of respect for Paul Bowles's music has led to

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Clips of interviews with Bowles from the documentary

4801:"Members of the Ensemble Modern: Hermann Kretzschmar" 4746:"PAUL BOWLES WING: Tangier American Legation (TALIM)" 3694:. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 171–5. 538:, Orson Welles, a whole lot of other people, endless. 522:

In 1947, Bowles received a contract for a novel from

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Review of "The Spider's House", New York Times, 1955

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Stars in the Firmament: Tangier Characters 1660–1960

762:(under the pseudonym Driss ben Hamed Charhadi), and 113: 107: 6116:

Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

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More interviews on the official Paul Bowles website

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