“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

Are we travellers or tourists? #PaulBowles was certainly a traveller. Find out more about his life at www.paulbowles.org. #americanwriters #theshelteringsky #quotes

Sixteen-year-old Paul Bowles was deeply impressed by a performance of Stravinsky's The Firebird at Carnegie Hall. Discover the chronology of Paul Bowles' life at www.paulbowles.org. #paulbowles #Stravinsky #firebird

The official Paul Bowles website features a series of songs written in Bowles' early style (1932–1940) that were never previously recorded. These were produced in 2024 at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall in London: www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b... #music #soprano #villiersdavid

Films based on the works of Paul Bowles: 🎞️ The Sheltering Sky, Bertolucci, 1990. 🎞️ Halfmoon (based on “The Story of Lahcen and Idir”, “Call at Corazón”, “Allal”), Schleich, 1995. 🎞️ The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid (based on “A Distant Episode”), Rivers, 2015. Have you seen them all?

“The pieces with the greatest, and those with the smallest amount, of Arabic influence, are both to be found, strangely enough, in the same country: Morocco. ” — Paul Bowles www.paulbowles.org #morocco #paulbowles #music

In 1933, after travelling in Europe and Morocco, Paul Bowles, aged 23, reaches Ghardaïa, a town in Saharan Algeria. There, he uses the harmonium in the town's church to compose a cantata, using his own French text. Learn more about #PaulBowles #biography: www.paulbowles.org. #Algeria #sahara

Listen to unreleased #PaulBowles #music! You can find recordings of his compositions at www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b.... In The Platinum Forest, 1932 Performed by: Soprano: Sofia Kirwan-Baez Piano: Zeynep Özsuca, 2024 #soprano #opera #piano

This quote by Paul Bowles is from the book "Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977", published by Black Sparrow Press in 1981. Find out more: www.paulbowles.org/writings/Poe... #paulbowles #collectedpoems #poetry #poems #quote #quotes #morocco

Notebook with handwritten notes for Bowles’s autobiography Without Stopping (1972) (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums). Have a look at the manuscript in the archives section of Paul Bowles' official website. www.paulbowles.org #PaulBowles #WithoutStopping

In 1950 John Lehmann publishes "A Little Stone", omitting "The Delicate Prey" and "Pages from Cold Point" because of censorship concerns. The American version, "The Delicate Prey and Other Stories", includes the two stories and is published by Random House. #paulbowles #reader #tales

In 1931, at the suggestion of Gertrude Stein, Paul Bowles and Aaron Copland travelled to Morocco for the first time. #PaulBowles #biography #americanwriter #AaronCopland #GertrudeStein #morocco #travelstories

First typewritten page of Bowles’s most celebrated novel, #TheShelteringSky, with an epigraph by #EduardoMallea added in pencil in the upper right margin. #PaulBowles #manuscripts #EduardoMallea #americanwriter Courtesy of @ransomcenter.bsky.social

In 1928, at the age of 17, Paul Bowles publishes the poem "Spire Song" and the prose poem "Entity" in Transition magazine. He enters University of Virginia and experiments with inhaling ether. #paulbowles #literature #transitionmagazine

Fragments of draft for parts V and VII of #PointsInTime. On the left-hand page of part V, there is a draft of #JulianVreden. See www.paulbowles.org for more #manuscripts. #PaulBowles #handwriting #americanauthor

In 1982, Ecco Press published "Points in Time" by #PaulBowles. Considered a #lyricalhistory, the book takes the reader on a journey through Moroccan centuries. www.paulbowles.org #morocco #history #books #americanauthors

Paul Bowles finished The Sheltering Sky eight months after he had begun it. Doubleday rejected it, asserting that it was not a novel and he had to return the advance they had given him. paulbowles.org #theshelteringsky #americanwriters

We have just uploaded some unreleased music recordings to the official Paul Bowles website. You can listen to them by following this link: www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b... #paulbowles #unreleased #music #janebowles #dhlawrence

"There were two volumes about a woman named Bluey Laber Dozlen, who sails from an unidentified European country to Wen Kroy..." Check out these typescript excerpts where #PaulBowles reflects on his early writing experiences and the character of #Bluey in his #autobiography. www.paulbowles.org

In 1963 Peter Owen publishes Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue, a collection of travel essays by Paul Bowles. Learn more on #PaulBowles official website: www.paulbowles.org #travel #essay #security

In 1931, at the age of 21, #PaulBowles sailed to Europe and met Gertrude Stein for the first time. Paul Bowles recalls this encounter in his autobiography "Without stopping", published in 1971. paulbowles.org #gertrudestein #withoutstopping #alicetoklas #paris

#PaulBowles learns to read by age four and keeps #notebooks with #drawings and stories, a habit that will continue throughout his childhood. Holograph #juvenilia notebook. Pages from an Imaginary Diary, c. 1918 (courtesy of @ransomcenter.bsky.social). Read more: buff.ly/Y6qU95 #childhood

Quote from "The Spider's house" (1955) www.paulbowles.org/writings/Nov... #paulbowles #perfectmoment #memories #americanwriter

"A free and fearless spirit, Paul Bowles experimented in several kinds of transgression, and in his work and private life he made few concessions to convention." Read the biographical note on #PaulBowles by Rodrigo Rey Rosa: www.paulbowles.org/biography #transgression #freespirit #americanwriter

"Come for tea," he'd say to almost anyone who asked to see him." Frederic Tuten of the Paris Review recalls his meeting with #PaulBowles in #Tangier: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/11.... parisreview.bsky.social

Check out the #readings of #PaulBowles. Listen to him reading the #shortnovel “A Friend of the World”, from the collection of kif tales: “A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard”. https://www.paulbowles.org/writings/Paul%20Bowles%20Reading #paulbowles @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

Highsmith, Williams, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Purdy, Vidal and Rey Rosa... they all wrote about their encounters with Paul Bowles... On the website paulbowles.org you can find their writings about him: https://buff.ly/4ahE24a. #americanwriters #Highsmith #Williams #Ginsberg #Burroughs #Purdy #Vidal

Check out the excerpts from Gary Conklin's #documentary "Paul Bowles in Morocco" and footages of #PaulBowles and #AhmedYacoubi in "8X8" by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp & Jean Cocteau: https://buff.ly/4g7zcrS. #morocco #TangierMorroco #jeancocteau #duchamp #hansrichter #films #filmography

8 × 8 is a 1957 American #experimentalfilm directed by #HansRichter, with contributing work by #MarcelDuchamp and #JeanCocteau. Watch 16' of the film with #PaulBowles and #AhmedYacoubi: https://www.paulbowles.org/clips. #cocteau #duchamp #americanauthors #film

The tale “The Night Before Thinking” by Ahmed ben Driss el Yacoubi was recorded in #Moroccan Arabic and translated by Bowles. We present for the 1st time the original recording of the story, its transcription in Arabic and English and the published version: https://buff.ly/40kzRjK. #AhmedYacoubi

In the archives section of the #PaulBowles website you will find #scores, #manuscripts, #letters & links to archival collections at the Universities of Delaware and Texas: https://buff.ly/3CbJYiQ. #americanwriters

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: https://buff.ly/4g7zcrS. #PaulBowles #trance #dance #documentary