The Authorized Paul Bowles Web Site

CATALOGUE OF PAUL BOWLES' LITERARY WORKS, Part Two

by Jeffrey Miller, Kenneth Lisenbee and Allen Hibbard

PAUL BOWLES' INTERVIEWS AND CONVERSATIONS

(Chronological)

José Carleton, "Paul Bowles al Vivo", Madrid: Indice,1949-1950

Harvey Breit, "Talk with Paul Bowles", New York Times Book Review (March 9,1952): LVII:10

Ira Cohen, Interview with Paul Bowles, (unpublished interview from the Paul Bowles Papers, Rare Book

and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York; 1965)

Mike Steen, interview with Paul Bowles, A Look at Tennessee Williams (New York: Hawthorne Books,
Inc.; 969): 141-156

Daniel Halpern, "An Interview with Paul Bowles" [1970], (Hopewell, New Jersey: The Ecco Press, Too Far
From Home: Selected Writings of Paul Bowles 1992): 523-538. (Read this interview.)

Oliver Evans, "An Interview with Paul Bowles" (Orient, New York: , Mediterranean Review, 1;
Winter 1971): 3-15

Michael Rogers, "Conversation in Morocco", Rolling Stone magazine, 161 (May 23, 1974): 48-58

Daniel Halpern, "Interview with Paul Bowles", TriQuarterly, 33 (Spring 1975): 159-177

Stephen Davis, "Interview: Paul Bowles", New York: Stone Age (Spring 1979): 38-40, 59

Jeffrey Bailey, "The Art of Fiction LXVII", Interview with Paul Bowles, The Paris Review, 81 (1981): 62-98

(Read this interview.)

John Spilker, "Paul Bowles Interviewed", oboe, 5, Night Horn Books (1982): 74-86

David Seidner, Paul Bowles Interview, Bomb, 4, (November 1982): 10-13

Karren LaLonde Alenier, Francine Geraci, and Ken Pottiger, "An Interview with Paul Bowles",
Gargoyle, 24, (Spring 1984): 5-32

Gena Dagel Caponi, "Conversation with Paul Bowles", Conversations with Paul Bowles (Jackson:
University of Mississippi Press, 1986): 193-200

Gena Dagel, A Nomad in New York: Paul Bowles 1933-48, (American Music, Vol. 7, No. 3, Autumn,
1989): 278-314

Allen Hibbard, interview with Paul Bowles, 1988. Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction (Boston:

Twayne Publishers, 1993)

Catherine Warnow and Regina Weinreich, interview conducted in Tangier during filming of Paul Bowles:
The Complete Outsider (November 1988)

Heidi A. Jaouad, "Paul Bowles à Tanger", Revue CELFAN, 7.3 (May 1989): 15-18.

Gerardo Piña-Rosales, "En Tanger con Paul Bowles: Entrevista," Nuez: Revista de Arte y Literatura, 2

(1990): 5-6, 8-9

Soledad Alameda, "Paul Bowles: Touched by Magic" (Madrid: El País, 15 February 1990): 26-29

Stephen Davis, "Mercury at 80", (Boston: The Boston Globe Magazine, 4 March 1990): 14-20, 24-25

Josep Massot, Paul Bowles: A Nomad Stranded in Tangier (Madrid: La Vanguardia magazine, April 15,
1990)

Bruce Duffie, a telephone conversation and interview with Paul Bowles, recorded in May 1992
(Read this interview.)

Gena Dagel Caponi, editor, Conversations with Paul Bowles (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1993)

Simon Bischoff, editor, Paul Bowles Photographs: How can I send a picture into the desert?
and "Conversations with Paul Bowles", an interview conducted during the period 1989-1991
(Zürich, Berlin, New York: Scalo Publishers, 1993): 205-255

Vittorio Santoro, "Paul Bowles and Vittorio Santoro: A Conversation", Portraits, Nudes, Clouds:

A Book of Photographs by Vittorio Santoro (Zürich: Memory/Cage Editions, 1993): 67-70

Abdelhak Elghandor, "Atavism and Civilization: An Interview with Paul Bowles", Ariel, 25

(April 1994): 7-30

Phillip Ramey, "'You Didn’t Want Even to Meet Prokofiev?'", Paul Bowles: Music (New York:
Eos Music, Inc., 1995): 9-28, a 1995 interview with Paul Bowles on his and others' music.)
(On this site retitled as: "I Never Liked to Raise My Voice"

Florian Vetsch, "Desultory Correspondence: An Interview with Paul Bowles on Gertrude Stein",

(Zürich, Switzerland: Memory/Cage Editions, 1997). (Read on this site a substantial excerpt.)

Frank J. Oteri and Ken Smith, interview with Paul Bowles for New Music Box, the online Web magazine
of the American Music Center in New York, conducted in Tangier on January 1, 1998, and published
on December 1, 1999. (Read this interview.)

Phillip Ramey, "Up Above the World: An Interview with Paul Bowles", Los Angeles: LA Weekly

(May 8-14, 1998): 32-33. (On this site, retitled as "A Talk With Paul Bowles").

Mario Campañas, "La herencia del Nómada", (Barcelona, España: Ajoblanco: Número 112, Noviembre
1998): 26-30

Stephen Morison, Jr., "A Distant Episode: In Tangier with Paul Bowles", (New York: Poets & Writers
magazine, volume 27, issue 4, August-September 1999)

Raman Singh, "Una conversación con Paul Bowles" ("A Conversation with Paul Bowles"), Madrid, España
and Brooklyn, New York: Terra Incognita, Issue No. 5, (2004/2005): 23-33 [Previously unpublished
interview with Paul Bowles in Tangier conducted in August 1978.]

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Cecil R. McLeod, Paul Bowles: A Checklist: 1929-1969 (Flint, Michigan: Apple Tree Press, 1970)

Jeffrey Miller, Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1986)

BIOGRAPHIES BY OR ABOUT PAUL BOWLES

(Chronological)

Robert Briatte, Paul Bowles, 2117 Tanger Socco (Paris: Plon, 1989)

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles (New York:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989; New York: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999)

Michelle Green, The Dream at the End of the World: Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier
(New York: HarperCollins, 1991; London: Bloomsbury, 1992)

Gary Pulsifer, editor, Paul Bowles by His Friends (London: Peter Owen, 1992)

Gena Dagel Caponi, Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
1994)

Mohamed Choukri, Paul Bowles: Le Reclus de Tanger (Paris: Quai Voltaire, 1996)

Millicent Dillon, You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

Virginia Spencer Carr, Paul Bowles: a Life, (New York: Scribner, 2004; London: Peter Owen, 2005)

Jens Rosteck, Jane und Paul Bowles: Leben ohne anzuhalten, (München: Goldman Verlag, September
2005) [In German]

REFERENCES, JOURNALS, REVIEWS,

ARTICLES AND STUDIES

(Alphabetical by author)

John W. Aldridge, After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars. "Paul Bowles:

The Cancelled Sky" (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951): Chapter XII

M. Balzani and C. W. Bush, "Is he a Bedouin? Post-War American and French Responses to North Africa
in the Work of Paul Bowles and Albert Camus", Dale Carter (editor). The End of the Ike Age, (Aarhus,
Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1992): 104-123.

Johannes Willem Bertens, The Fiction of Paul Bowles: The Soul Is the Weariest Part of the Body

(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1979)

Evan Brier, "Constructing the Postwar Art Novel: Paul Bowles, James Laughlin, and the Making of
The Sheltering Sky" (Modern Language Association: PMLA Journal, January 2006, vol. 121, no. 1):
pp. 186–199

Victoria Brooks, "Dreaming in Tangier", Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame

(Vancouver, British Columbia: GreatestEscapes.com Publishing, 2000): 3-19

Edward Butscher and Irving Malin, editors, Twentieth Century Literature: Paul Bowles Issue (Hempstead,
New York: Hofstra University, No. 3/4, (Autumn-Winter, 1986)

Edward Butscher. "Paul Bowles as Poet: Excursions of a Minimal Anti-Self." Twentieth-Century

Literature, Volume 32, 1986: 350-72

Amanda Cagle, "Language as an Isolating Factor in the Fiction of Paul Bowles", Publications of the

Mississippi Philogical Association, (2001): 26-34

Juan Cruz, "Paul Bowles: Escritor y Compositor", "La soledad es preferible a todo" (Madrid: El Pais,
19 noviembre 1999, Nº 1295) (Read.)

Neil Campbell, "Dialogic Encounters and Hybrid Routes in the Fiction, Travel Writing, and Translations of
Paul Bowles", Will Kaufman and Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson (editors), Transatlantic Studies
(Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2000)

Gena Dagel Caponi, "Paul Bowles: a Study in Contradictions", USA Today (magazine), Society for the
Advancement of Education, March 1997

Ira Cohen, Minbad Sinbad, précédé d'une conversation avec Paul Bowles; traduction et adaptation
Philippe Franck (Bruxelles, Belgique: Didier Devillez Éditeur, 1998)

Jack Collins, "Approaching Paul Bowles", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, (Fall 1982)
Volume 2, Number 3: 55-63

Robert Craft, "Pipe Dreams" (The New York Review of Books, November, 23, 1989: 6+)

Gena Dagel, "A Nomad in New York: Paul Bowles, 1933-48", American Music (Fall 1989): 278-314

Ibrahim Dawood, "Mohammed Mrabet's Fiction of Alienation", World Literature Today, Vol. 64, 1990

Stacey D'Erasmo, "The Exiled Heart", New York: Out magazine, May 1999: 69-73, 118

Emilio Sanz de Soto, "Bowles... y España", Madrid, El Pais, 19 noviembre 1999, Nº 1295 (Read this.)

Millicent Dillon, "Tracing Paul Bowles", Raritan, 17.3 (Winter 1998): 47-63

John Ditsky, "The Time of Friendship: The Short Fiction of Paul Bowles" (Twentieth-Century Literature,
34, Nos. 3-4, 1986: 373-387)

Brian T. Edwards, "Desert of Memory" (Feed magazine, October 2000)

Brian T. Edwards, "What Happened in Tangier?", Introduction to Moroccan republication of Love With
a Few Hairs (1967) by Mohammed Mrabet. (Fez, Morocco: Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre,
i-xiv, 2004).

Brian T. Edwards, "Sheltering Screens: Paul Bowles and Foreign Relations", American Literary History,
17:2 (Summer 2005)

Brian T. Edwards, "On the Role of Intelligence in Globalization: Phases of Mrabet's Work", Mrabet/Bowles:
Literary and Cultural Encounters (Fez, Morocco: Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre, Sidi Mohammed
Ben Abdallah University, 2005)

Brian T. Edwards, "The Worlds of Paul Bowles", Tingis: A Moroccan-American Magazine of Ideas
and Culture, Spring 2005 (Visit the Tingis magazine site.)

Brian T. Edwards, Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech
Express (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2005)

Chester E. Eisinger, "Paul Bowles and the Passionate Pursuit of Disengagement", Fiction of the Forties
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963)

Isabelle Emerson, Twentieth-Century Music for the Dance: A Bibliography (Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press, 1996)

Stephen Emerson, "Endings and The Sheltering Sky", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2,
no. 3 (1982)

David Espey, "Sound Effects and the Void in the Fiction of Paul Bowles", The Journal of American Culture
       and Literature, Gonul Ucele and Bilge Mutluay, editors. (15th Anniversary Special Issue),
       co-published by the Poetry/Rare Books Collection, SUNY Buffalo and Hacettepe University,
       Ankara, Turkey (1997): 1-8

David Espey, "A Writer Writes—Remembering Paul Bowles" [Morocco 1962-64]. This article was written
in 2000 and published in the online Web site of Peace Corps Writers in September 2002.

Oliver Evans, "Paul Bowles and The 'Natural' Man", Critique, 1, no. 3 (1959): 43-59

Iain Finlayson, Tangier: City of the Dream (London and New York: HarperCollins, 1992)

Leslie A. Fiedler, "Style and Anti-Style in the Short Story", Kenyon Review (Winter 1951): 155-172

Edward Field, "Tea at Paul Bowles's", Raritan, 12, no. 3 (Winter 1993): 92-111

Edward Field, The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of
the Bohemian Era (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)

Anne Foltz, "Paul Bowles." Review of Contemporary Fiction 20.2 (Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive
Press, University of Illinois, Summer 2000): 81-120

Ellen G. Friedman, "Variations on Mystery-Thriller: Paul Bowles' Up Above the World", (Armchair
Detective, 19, no. 3, Summer 1986: 279-284)

Asad Al Ghalith, "Paul Bowles's Portrayal of Islam in His Moroccan Short Stories" (International
Fiction Review, 19, no. 2, 1992: 103-108)

Asad Al Ghalith, "Overlooked Prominence: Two Short Stories of Paul Bowles", (College Language
Association Journal, 39.2, December 1995: 208-18)

W. David Halloran, "Screen, Lattice and Veil: Paul Bowles and The Sheltering Sky in the Undergraduate

Classroom". Albuquerque, New Mexico: Bowles Notes 2 (Spring 2004): 18-24. (Publication of

The Jane and Paul Bowles Society)

Mitzi Berger Hamovitch, "Release from Torment: The Fragmented Double in Let It Come Down"

(Twentieth-Century Literature, 32, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1986: 440-450)

Jay S. Harrison, "Composer at Home Abroad" (New York Herald Tribune, May 17, 1953: IV:5)

Ihab Hassan, "The Pilgrim as Prey: A Note on Paul Bowles" (The Western Review, 19, 1954: 23-36)

Ihab Hassan, "Paul Bowles: The Pilgrim as Prey", Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades

(University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa and London: 1995)

Robert Hauptman, "Paul Bowles and the Perception of Evil" (The Review of Contemporary Fiction,
Fall 1982, Volume 2, No. 3: 71-73)

Irene Herrmann and Timothy Mangan, editors, Paul Bowles on Music (Berkeley: University of California
       Press, September 2003) [Includes the last interview with Paul Bowles; contains many music
       reviews written by Paul Bowles from 1935 to 1946, which appeared in the magazine Modern Music,
       and the New York Herald Tribune when Bowles was a music critic for that newspaper.]

Allen Hibbard, "Expatriation and Narration in Two Works by Paul Bowles" (West Virginia Philological
Papers, 32, 1986): 61-71)

Allen Hibbard, "Tender is the Night and The Sheltering Sky: The Meanings of Familiar and Exotic Foreign

Settings", Abhath Al-Yarmouk (Literature and Linguistic Series), Yarmouk University Publications,

Irbid, Jordan (1988), Volume 6, No. 1: 7-20

Allen Hibbard, Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction (New York: Twayne, 1993)

Allen Hibbard, Paul Bowles, Magic & Morocco (San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 2004)

Leo Hickey, "A Pragmastylistic Feature in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky", Forum for Modern
Language Studies, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, England, UK,
Volume 35, Issue 1, January 1999: 34-41

Peggy Glanville-Hicks, "Paul Bowles: American Composer", Oxford University Press, Music and Letters,

Volume XXVI, Number 2: 88-96 (Volume 26, Issue 2, April 1945: 88-96)

John Hopkins, Tangier Buzzless Flies, (New York: Atheneum Press, 1972)

John Hopkins, The Tangier Diaries, 1962-1979. Cover illustration by Ahmed Yacoubi; photography by
Robert Freson, Tessa Codrington, Ira Cohen and Cherie Nutting (Paris: Editions de La Table Ronde,
1995; San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1998)

Syrine C. Hout, "Grains of Utopia: The Desert as Literary Oasis in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky and

Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands", Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000

Cassidy Hughes, Paul Bowles & Bernardo Bertolucci: Under Two Sheltering Skies: the Novel and the
Film (New York: Hyperion Books, 1989)

Heidi A. Jaouad, "Tanger dans l'imaginaire de Paul Bowles." Cahiers d'études maghrébines, 13 (2000):
21-7.

Burton S. Kendle. "Paul Bowles: Overview" in Contemporary Novelists, 6th edition. Edited by Susan
Windisch. Thomson Gale / St. James Press, 1996

David Kuhne, "Paul Bowles: Lost and Found in North Africa: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and

The Spider's House". African Settings in Contemporary American Novels (Westport, Connecticut:

Greenwood Press, 1999)

R. Kevin Lacey and Francis Poole (editors), Mirrors on the Maghrib: Critical Reflections on Paul and Jane

Bowles and Other American Writers in Morocco (Delmar, New York: Caravan Press, 1996)

R. Kevin Lacey, "Western Movie Images of Arab-African North Africa: The Sheltering Sky and the

Question of Orientalism"

R. Kevin Lacey, "Paul and Jane Bowles, the Beats, and North Africa: Aesthetic Creativity through Cultural
Alienation"

R. Kevin Lacey, "Days, Tangier Journal 1987-1989: The Text, The Context, and Closing the Circle on
Paul Bowles’s Impressions of Tangier"

Ellen Lansky. "Beloved Enemies: Two Serious Ladies, The Sheltering Sky, Jane and Paul Bowles,
and Alcohol", Dionysos: The Literature and Addiction TriQuarterly, 7.2 (Summer 1997): 5-12

Richard Lehan, "Existentialism in Recent American Fiction: The Demonic Quest", Texas Studies in
Literature and Language (Summer 1959): 181-202

Bennett Lerner, "Paul Bowles: Lost and Found", Perspectives on Music: Essays on Collections

at the Humanities Research Center, edited by Dave Oliphant and Thomas Zigal (Austin, Texas:
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1985): 149-155

Wendy Lesser, "Paul Bowles' Collected Stories", Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2, no. 3 (1982):
50-52

John Maier, "Morocco in the Fiction of Paul Bowles", The Atlantic Connection: 200 Years of

Moroccan-American Relations, 1786-1986, edited by Jerome B. Bookin-Weiner and Mohammed

El Mansour (Rabat, Morocco: Edino, 1990): 245-258

John Maier, "Two Moroccan Storytellers in Paul Bowles's Five Eyes: Larbi Layachi and Ahmed Yacoubi",

Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism, 1, no. 3 (1991): 19

Irving Malin, "Drastic Points", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2, no. 3 (1982): 30-32

Irving Malin, "The Time of Friendship, by Paul Bowles", Studies in Short Fiction, 4, no. 3 (1968): 311-313

Jody McAuliffe, "The Church of the Desert: Reflections on The Sheltering Sky", South Atlantic Quarterly,
91, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 419-426

Jay McInerney, "Paul Bowles in Exile" (New York, Vanity Fair , 48:9, September 1985): 69-76, 131

Paul Metcalf, "A Journey in Search of Bowles", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2, no. 3 (1982):
32-41

Jean Louis Miège, Georges Bousquet, Jacques Denarnaud, Tanger: porte entre deux mondes

(Paris: Art, Création, Réalisation, 1992)

Marilyn Moss, "The Child in Text: Autobiography, Fiction, and the Aesthetics of Deception in Without
Stopping", Twentieth-Century Literature, 32, nos. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 1986): 314-333

Eric Mottram, "Paul Bowles: Staticity and Terror", Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2, no. 3 (1982): 6-30

Greg Mullins, Colonial Affairs: Bowles, Burroughs, and Chester Write Tangier (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2002)

The New York Times, author unattributed, "Paul Bowles Lives On in His Words and Music" (Reviews
and News section, November 1, 2000, page E5) (A partial version of the original four-column
article which contained two photos may be read online here.)

Dorothy Nyren, "Paul Bowles", A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (New York:
Frederick Ungar, 1960)

Joyce Carol Oates, "Before God Was Love", The Profane Art (New York: Dutton, 1983): 128-131

Steven E. Olson, "Alien Terrain: Paul Bowles's Filial Landscapes", Twentieth-Century Literature, 34,

nos. 3-4 (1986): 334-349

Christopher Patten, "Chronicle of terrorism foretold", (London: Financial Times, April 28, 2006)
(Read this article by Lord Patten, the Chancellor of Oxford University.)

Richard F. Patteson, A World Outside: The Fiction of Paul Bowles (Austin: University of Texas Press,
1987)

Richard F. Patteson, "Paul Bowles: Two Unfinished Projects", Library Chronicle of the University

of Texas at Austin, new series, 30 (1985): 57-65

Richard F. Patteson, "Paul Bowles/ Mohammed Mrabet: Translation, Transformation, and Transcultural

Discourse", Journal of Narrative Technique, 22, no. 3 (Fall 1992): 180-190

Richard F. Patteson, "The External World of Paul Bowles", Perspectives on Contemporary Literature:
Rage and Order (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky), 10 (1984): 16-22

Michael Pinker. "'Everyone Exists in Order to Be Entertaining': The Fiction of Paul Bowles", Denver

Quarterly, 29.2 (Fall 1994): 156-93

Wayne Pounds, "Paul Bowles and The Delicate Prey: The Psychology of Predation", Revue Belge

de Philologie et d'Histoire, 59, no. 3 (1981): 620-633

Wayne Pounds, Paul Bowles: The Inner Geography (New York: Peter Lang, 1985)

Wayne Pounds, "Let It Come Down and Inner Geography", Review of Contemporary Fiction 2,
no. 3 (1982): 42-50

Wayne Pounds, "Paul Bowles and Edgar Allen Poe: The Disintegration of the Personality".
Twentieth-Century Literature: Paul Bowles Issue (Hempstead, New York: Hofstra University,
Volume 32, 1986): 424-39

Orville Prescott, "The Young Decadents: Capote, Bowles, Buechner, Goyen, Williams, Yorke",
In My Opinion: An Inquiry into the Contemporary Novel (Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill,