Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1944
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#paulbowles #chronology #salvatordali
Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1944
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#paulbowles #chronology #salvatordali
Handwritten notes for #incidentalmusic for #OscarWilde’s #Salome and #Euripides’s #Hippolytus, written for synthesizer and performed at productions of at the American School in Tangier in 1992 and 1993 respectively (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums).
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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-...
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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
