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Imagine Cormac McCarthy's savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerising, fable-like novel. Libya's Al-Koni draws on the lore of the Sahara's Tuareg nomads in this tragedy of rebellion and revenge. Rejecting his noble clan, Ukhayyad prefers the company of his pedigree camel: a royal beast, splendidly evoked in Elliott Colla's...
Almost two years ago, a close friend enthusiastically recommended Paul Bowles's 1955 novel The Spider's House — set in Morocco during the struggle for independence from France — as a prescient commentary on Muslim attitudes toward the west (and vice versa), the quagmire in Iraq and so forth. Eager to read it on my recent return from Fes, I was amazed to find that Bowles's story takes place in that...
Sang Amy Winehouse. Well she didn't exactly say that, but the thought crossed my mind, when I stopped by my favourite wine shop in Cambridge called Bacchanalia. Because the owner Paul Bowles was reading an article about his shop published...
Shows that run the gamut from Sartre to satire – with a couple of new musicals in the mix – highlight Diversionary Theatre's just-announced 2008-09 season.
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Plucking through a wide range of book reviews has the same appeal as used bookstores: the sense of possibility underscores your every move. It's one thing to *know* there's brilliant writing happening all over the world; it's another to brush...
NBCC Sandrof award winner Bill Henderson, founder and editor of the Pushcart Press, invoked the memories of two Rays--Raymond Carver and Ray Smith--as he introduced readings from the Pushcart Prize anthologies last night in the "Selected Shorts" series at Symphony Space. "In 1974 a small publication called Spectrum published a short story called 'So Much Water So Close to Home' by a new writer named...
Trevor suggested this novel which concerns a young married but sexually estranged couple, Port and Kit Morseby, who escape the aftermath of the Second World War by travelling to North Africa and later into the Sahara, only to find themselves divided further. Trevor said he thought the novel would raise some really interesting issues, but as it happened no one else was fired enough by it to discuss...
Funny that I should come across this the day after writing a post about getting inspired on the bus (it's a quote from Paul Bowles in the introduction to the Penguin edition of his novel The Sheltering Sky, which we are reading for our next reading group discussion): I got the idea for The Sheltering Sky riding on a Fifth Avenue bus one day going uptown to Tenth Street. I decided just which point of...
To wrap up Short Story Week here at The Millions, we conducted an informal poll of our contributors, asking them to name their favorite English-language short story collections. The results form a kind of subjective bibliography, a personal pantheon of 45 favorite collections. We've added links to our blurbs and reviews where appropriate. We hope this list will be useful, or at least interesting; feel...
The short story was but one of many writing genres embraced by author Paul Bowles , known also for his novels, travel essays and poems. The influential American writer drew the admiration of other literary giants such as Tobias Wolff and Norman Mailer , who said Bowles "let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the death of the Square... the call of the orgy, the end of civilization." That aptly describes...
I’m into a passage in the writing where I talk about the functions that were once bound up in discrete, dedicated spaces now being, in William Mitchell's words, “completely smeared across urban space.” It's a simple shift with profound implications for how we experience cities, and I’m definitely having fun exploring those. (Surprisingly, that's been the [...]
I just spent a few days my first time in Paul Bowles country, in Marrakesh. (Bowles resided himself in Tangier of course.) An intense, unsettling, intoxicating place, Marrakesh. An unnerving place. Traffic signs for instance are a comparative luxury,...
I’ve recommended several novels to my boss, as well as the travel books of Patrick Leigh Fermor, and thus far my job in not in jeopardy. She has enjoyed Offshore , by Penelope Fitzgerald; Loving , by Henry Green; and Out Stealing Horses , by Per Petterson. On her own she found, with my endorsement, John Updike’s Of the Farm and Stanley Elkin's Mrs. Ted Bliss . Last week, on a whim, I suggested one...
