Paul Bowles
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Paul Bowles
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"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
#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
A glimpse into the Paul Bowles Library!
Visit the website to see the full collection!
#LibraryShelfieDay #paulbowles #travelstories #ajoblanco
Visit the website to see the full collection!
#LibraryShelfieDay #paulbowles #travelstories #ajoblanco
January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
A glimpse into the Paul Bowles Library!
Visit the website to see the full collection!
#LibraryShelfieDay #paulbowles #travelstories #ajoblanco
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
#paulbowles #americanliterature #americanwriter #americancomposer
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 AM
A free and fearless spirit—one who made few concessions to convention.
#paulbowles #americanliterature #americanwriter #americancomposer
#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
Read it all on paulbowles.org website.
#paulbowlesmusic #rodrigoreyrosa #gertrudestein
January 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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
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
www.paulbowles.org
#travel #travelliterature
January 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Quote from: Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi
www.paulbowles.org
#travel #travelliterature
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
The complete score can be found in the archive section of www.paulbowles.org.
#scores #music #paulbowlesmusic
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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
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
#library #books
January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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
#library #books
Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1942
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#newyorkheraldtribune #militaryservice
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#newyorkheraldtribune #militaryservice
January 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1942
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#newyorkheraldtribune #militaryservice
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
Thank you to flutist Stathis Karapanos for performing it for us.
#score #flute #akashic #paulbowles #composer
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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
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!
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!
December 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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!
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!
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@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-...
Paul Bowles - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Paul Bowles‘ birthday today. Paul Bowles, born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, December 30, 1910. He died in Tangier. Morocco, his beloved Morocco, November 18, 1999, aged 88). Paul Bowles – phot...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@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-...
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
The entire #PaulBowles library is available on the official website:
www.paulbowles.org/library/visu...
#library #books
December 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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
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
Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata
#paulbowles #unreleased #music #dreamcantata
December 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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
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
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#communistparty #katharinehepburn #marcelduchamp #paulbowles #1941 #garcialorca
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1941
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#communistparty #katharinehepburn #marcelduchamp #paulbowles #1941 #garcialorca
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
Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, Univ. Press of Mississippi
#PaulBowles #travel #traveller #morocco #quoteoftheday #quote
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"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
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
#Mrabet @udelaware.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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
#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
"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
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
"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.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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.
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
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#TheatreGuildProduction #PhilipBarry #LillianHellman #Houseman #paulbowles
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1940
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#TheatreGuildProduction #PhilipBarry #LillianHellman #Houseman #paulbowles
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
#18november
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
#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
www.paulbowles.org/paul-bowles/...
#kerouac #ginsberg #tangeri #beatgeneration
November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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
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
#travel #travellers #travelliterature #paulbowles #quotes
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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
#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
Visual tour of the library: www.paulbowles.org/library/visu....
#books #library #tangier
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#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
Visual tour of the library: www.paulbowles.org/library/visu....
#books #library #tangier
Discover a collection of lost scores by Paul Bowles on the album "Dream Cantata & a Selection of Early Songs." "Dream Cantata" was recorded at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall in London in 2024.
Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata .
#paulbowles #unreleased #music #dreamcantata
Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata .
#paulbowles #unreleased #music #dreamcantata
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Discover a collection of lost scores by Paul Bowles on the album "Dream Cantata & a Selection of Early Songs." "Dream Cantata" was recorded at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall in London in 2024.
Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata .
#paulbowles #unreleased #music #dreamcantata
Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata .
#paulbowles #unreleased #music #dreamcantata
Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1939
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#JaneAuer #JaneBowles #PaulBowles #CharlesHenriFord #WilliamSaroyan #biography #1939
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#JaneAuer #JaneBowles #PaulBowles #CharlesHenriFord #WilliamSaroyan #biography #1939
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1939
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#JaneAuer #JaneBowles #PaulBowles #CharlesHenriFord #WilliamSaroyan #biography #1939
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.
#JaneAuer #JaneBowles #PaulBowles #CharlesHenriFord #WilliamSaroyan #biography #1939
"The Saint by Accident" by #MohammedMrabet was translated into English by #PaulBowles. It was first published in The Transatlantic Review No. 45, and was later included in The Boy Who Set the Fire & Other Stories.
#translation #manuscript #Moghrebi #morocco #Mrabet #beatgeneration
#translation #manuscript #Moghrebi #morocco #Mrabet #beatgeneration
October 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"The Saint by Accident" by #MohammedMrabet was translated into English by #PaulBowles. It was first published in The Transatlantic Review No. 45, and was later included in The Boy Who Set the Fire & Other Stories.
#translation #manuscript #Moghrebi #morocco #Mrabet #beatgeneration
#translation #manuscript #Moghrebi #morocco #Mrabet #beatgeneration