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Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
This sounds interesting: In the company's 25th anniversary season, social commentary takes an intimate turn with A Quarreling Pair, based on the Jane Bowles puppet play about two elderly sisters, one of whom wants to leave the nest. It's her strange journey, as re-imagined by Jones, that unleashes pure and gorgeous dancing punctuated by a scheming vaudevillian, a nasty cross-dresser, a bawdy emcee,...
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pages turned (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
A shower. Breakfast. I started the new David Sedaris, which I'd rather not read all in one fell swoop, so I then turned to a deliciously weird story by Jane Bowles. Sixth reading update From David Sedaris's When You are Engulfed in Flames : "It's Catching" "Keeping Up" "The Understudy" "This Old House" "Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?" 62 pages From My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane...
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Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Here is the line up for next fall's Next Wave Festival at BAM. You can view video previews for just about every one of these shows here. A Quarreling Pair Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company Based on the play by Jane Bowles Directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones Sep 30—Oct 4 Sunken Red Toneelhuis (BE) & ro theater (NL) Directed by Guy Cassiers with Dirk Roofthooft After the novel by Jeroen...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
At California's South Coast Rep. "The storytelling, which dips and dissolves in plot points too numerous and odd to synopsize, has an inventiveness that recalls the uncategorizable literary exploits of Jane Bowles. Greenberg's play isn't simply forging a nontraditional dramatic path but eddying in its own delightful contrivances."...
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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
B orn today: Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher, Danzig, Prussia, 1788; James Russell Lowell, poet, critic, essayist, Cambridge, Mass., 1819; Eric Gill, engraver, writer, type designer, Brighton, England, 1882; Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, Rockland, Maine, 1892; Sean O'Faolain, novelist, short-story writer, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland, 1900; Meridel Le Suer, novelist, journalist, poet, Murray, Iowa, 1900;...
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The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
Favorite literary fiction: Briege Duffaud, A Wreath Upon the Dead; Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic; Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks; Jim Crace, Being Dead; Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen; Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries. Favorite mysteries: Ian Rankin, Exit...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Bill T. Jones's new “Quarreling Pair” may surprise those familiar with his work over the last 20 years.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Bill T. Jones's new “Quarreling Pair” may surprise those familiar with his work over the last 20 years.
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 11/22/2007
Ali Smith is the latest writer to offer up a literary top ten at Pulp Net . Two entries from her list: My favourite novel that no one else seems to have heard of: Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles. I don't understand why Bowles's writing isn't better known. She’s brilliant. Deceased author I’d most like to watch crossing a room, just to see how she moves: Jane Austen Read about Smith's "favourite opening...
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LORNA SORE (Free subscription) | 10/29/2007
Jane Bowles, Sylivia Plath and Ruth Fainlight "In one sense, she was the perfect wife—I teased her that they might have served as the models for a nineteenthcentury marriage manual. Sylvia exhibited this same streak of obsessive domesticity. And I recognised it in myself. Regardless of all else, we were the product of the culture of the United States of America in the first half of the twentieth century,...
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ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/17/2007
Taxter & Spengemann Gallery 504 West 22nd Street, 212-924-0212 Chelsea October 20 - November 24, 2007 Opening: Saturday, October 20, 6 - 8PM Web Site Nancy de Holl From Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles: At this moment Mrs. Copperfield was strongly reminded of a dream that had recurred often during her life. She was being chased up a short hill by a dog. At the top of the hill there stood a few pine...
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LORNA SORE (Free subscription) | 09/22/2007
Last night I bought a copy of The Collected Works of Jane Bowles. F rom today's Guardian: " The borough [Brooklyn] can boast Walt Whitman, Arthur Miller and Truman Capote, who was particularly fond of visiting the waterfront underneath Brooklyn Bridge. WH Auden, Carson McCullers, Paul and Jane Bowles and Richard Wright at one time lived in the same house." I think Guardian America should start up...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 09/05/2007
Kate Zambreno in Rain Taxi Review of Books: Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis:At a recent unstimulating dinner party, I was perusing my host's bookshelves and pulled out a copy of Lydia Davis's Samuel Johnson is indignant, and turned...
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 09/04/2007
Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children and other books, recently told Newswe ek about her five most important books. She also addressed two other book-related issues: An important book that you haven't read: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It's slightly bizarre to make references without knowing what you're talking about. "Tilting at windmills"? A classic that, upon rereading, disappointed:...
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Sequenza21/ (Free subscription) | 08/13/2007
With at least 135 recordings (by my quick count) now in circulation, one would think there wasn't much Philip Glass music that hasn't already been submitted for the judgment of history. One would be wrong. Orange Mountain Music has just released the second of a planned series of 10 CDs assembled from the vast archives that [...]
