Jane Auer was born today in 1917! American writer and playwright, she married Paul Bowles in 1938. #janebowles #janeauer #paulbowles #americanwriter

Quote from an interview with The New York Times in 1995. #PaulBowles

Which Paul Bowles book would you share with a friend? #InternationalBookGivingDay #PaulBowles

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. #tangier #paulbowles #PatriciaHighsmith

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... #WorldReadAloudDay #paulbowles #readings

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1943 Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #paulbowles

A glimpse into the Paul Bowles Library! Visit the website to see the full collection! #LibraryShelfieDay #paulbowles #travelstories #ajoblanco

A free and fearless spirit—one who made few concessions to convention. #paulbowles #americanliterature #americanwriter #americancomposer

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. #paulbowlesmusic #rodrigoreyrosa #gertrudestein

Quote from: Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi www.paulbowles.org #travel #travelliterature

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. #scores #music #paulbowlesmusic

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.... #library #books

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1942 Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #newyorkheraldtribune #militaryservice

In the week of Paul Bowles's birthday, we are very glad to share with you this newly discovered, previously unreleased score: Akashic Melody for flute, written in 1989. Thank you to flutist Stathis Karapanos for performing it for us. #score #flute #akashic #paulbowles #composer

To celebrate what would have been #PaulBowles's 110th birthday today, we announce the discovery of two new items! A print of his hands by #CherieNutting and the #score of an unreleased piece of music for #flute written in 1989. We are working on recording! Check back soon for updates!

@paulbowles.bsky.social - Paul Bowles - on the anniversary of his birth today - and the appearance of two new films - Mohammed and Paul and Karim Debbagh's extraordinary, long-in-the-making, Five Eyes - allenginsberg.org/2025/12/m-d-...

You can learn so much about a man from his library. The entire #PaulBowles library is available on the official website: www.paulbowles.org/library/visu... #library #books

Festivities #giftidea: "Dream Cantata & a selection of early song", a collection of lost scores by Paul Bowles. Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata #paulbowles #unreleased #music #dreamcantata

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1941 Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #communistparty #katharinehepburn #marcelduchamp #paulbowles #1941 #garcialorca

"Life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible." Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, Univ. Press of Mississippi #PaulBowles #travel #traveller #morocco #quoteoftheday #quote

Typescript with Bowles’s corrections of El-Fellah, a story by Mohammed Mrabet (1977) (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums). #Mrabet @udelaware.bsky.social

In 1939, Paul and #JaneBowles joined the #AmericanCommunistParty. "We tried to compensate for our lack of devotion to Marxism-Leninism by seeing every Russian film that came to New York." Image: poster for #AleksandrNevskij movie, 1938 #sovietmovie

Mohammed #Mrabet’s short novel #TheBigMirror was taped and translated from the #Moghrebi by Paul Bowles and published in 1977. On paulbowles.org website there are some pages of Bowles’s notebooks with his “running translation” of the taped story into English, alongside its final published version.

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1940 Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #TheatreGuildProduction #PhilipBarry #LillianHellman #Houseman #paulbowles

Twenty-six years ago, on 18 November, Paul Bowles died in Tangier. Today, our thoughts turn to a free and fearless spirit and a dear friend. #18november

In a letter dated 31 May 1957, #AllenGinsberg tells #JackKerouac about his meetings with Paul Bowles and describes his character. www.paulbowles.org/paul-bowles/... #kerouac #ginsberg #tangeri #beatgeneration

Have you ever felt like you just needed to get as far away as possible from where you were born? Paul Bowles did. #travel #travellers #travelliterature #paulbowles #quotes

#PaulBowles's personal library includes over three thousand volumes that he collected during the 50 years he lived in Tangier. His copious library is now available in digitized form for public consultation. Visual tour of the library: www.paulbowles.org/library/visu.... #books #library #tangier

Discover a collection of lost scores by Paul Bowles on the album "Dream Cantata & a Selection of Early Songs." "Dream Cantata" was recorded at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall in London in 2024. Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata . #paulbowles #unreleased #music #dreamcantata

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1939 Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #JaneAuer #JaneBowles #PaulBowles #CharlesHenriFord #WilliamSaroyan #biography #1939

"The Saint by Accident" by #MohammedMrabet was translated into English by #PaulBowles. It was first published in The Transatlantic Review No. 45, and was later included in The Boy Who Set the Fire & Other Stories. #translation #manuscript #Moghrebi #morocco #Mrabet #beatgeneration

“The soul is the weariest part of the body.” The Sheltering Sky paulbowles.org #paulbowles #theshelteringsky #soul #quotes

Paul Bowles describes a Moroccan #trancedance of self mutilation that he witnessed in #Chouen, Morocco. Watch the extract from the 1970 documentary by Gary Conklin, "Paul Bowles In Morocco" on paulbowles.org website, Films section. #PaulBowles #trance #dance #Morocco #documentary #noquestionsasked

The words of William S. Burroughs for his friend Paul Bowles. These words are collected in the book "Paul Bowles by His Friends", Peter Owen, London, 1992. #williamsburroughs #burroughs #paulbowles #tangier #thenakedlunch

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1938 Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #JaneAuer #JaneBowles #PaulBowles #OrsonWelles #WilliamGillette #1938

During his teenage years, #PaulBowles wrote a series of poems, some of which were published in the University of Virginia magazine. Check paulbowles.org for more. Air to the Sea, early poems, manuscript, c. 1923-1927 (courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, at The University of Texas at Austin).

#PaulBowles's personal library includes over three thousand volumes that he collected during the 50 years he lived in #Tangier. His copious #library is now available in digitized form for public consultation. Check the full catalogue: www.paulbowles.org/library/visu....

'Scenes from the Door: The Ford" and "Scenes from the Door: Red Faces', were composed by #PaulBowles in collaboration with #GertrudeStein. These two songs have now been recorded and collected in the album "Paul Bowles: Dream Cantata and Selected Songs". paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata

Listen to Paul Bowles reading "Baptism of Solitude": from the collection of essays Their Heads are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: www.paulbowles.org/writings/Pau... #reading #paulbowles #authorreading #essays

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1937 Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #paulbowles #JaneAuer #JohnLatouche #GeorgeBalanchine #HenriFord

"Dream Cantata & a selection of early song", is a collection of lost scores by #PaulBowles. #DreamCantata was recorded at The Yehudi Menuhin Hall, London, in 2024. Except “My Sister’s Hand in Mine”, no other recordings of these pieces are extant. Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata

Paul Bowles made this comment while recalling the experience of writing his autobiography, "Without Stopping". He was glad to know that he would never need to repeat the experience! #paulbowles #autobiography #deadlines #writerslife

The Paul Bowles has the most comprehensive database on the musical work of Paul Bowles. #paulbowlesmusic #paulbowles #composer #americancomposer

Paul Bowles' life in 1936. Learn more on paulbowles.org #paulbowles #orsonwelles #johnhouseman #antifascism

About the writing of "Without Stopping. An Autobiography", Bowles would comment: "It seems to me that deadlines are all too likely to produce dead books." Learn more on www.paulbowles.org #PaulBowles #withoutstopping #autobiography #deadlines #writing #writers

In 1928, Paul Bowles enrolled at the University of Virginia, where he experimented with inhaling ether and came into contact with a group of intellectuals. Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #VirginiaUniversity #Intellectuals #paulbowles

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life. Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #paulbowles #BelaBartok #HenryDunham #RudyBurkhardt #JosephLosey #VernonDuke

By the time of his death in #Tangier, Morocco, in 1999, #PaulBowles had become a legendary figure in modern literary culture. The range of his literary work includes poems, #shortstories, novels, #travelwriting, essays, music criticism, autobiography, and translations. www.paulbowles.org #gorevidal

8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements: 1957 #experimentalfilm directed by #HansRichter, with contributing work by #MarcelDuchamp and #JeanCocteau. Watch 16' of the film with #PaulBowles and #AhmedYacoubi in the film section of paulbowles.org website. #cocteau #duchamp #film #phone

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life. Find out more at www.paulbowles.org. #paulbowles #marijuana #composer