{"product_id":"conversations-with-paul-bowles-paul-bowles-9780878056507","title":"Conversations with Paul Bowles","description":"For the past forty years, Paul Bowles has answered questions about the autobiographical references in his novels (\u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLet It Come Down\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spider's House\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUp Above the World\u003c\/i\u003e) and about his work as a composer in New York, all the time insisting, \"I don't want anyone to know about me.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these more than twenty interviews dating from 1952 to the present, Bowles gives a variety of answers that reveal as much as they conceal. Too gracious to refuse interviews, he regards inquiries with the same clear-eyed detachment that marks his prose, wondering, \"Why is it that Americans expect an artist's work to be a reflection of his life? They never seem to want to believe that the two can be independent of each other and go their separate ways.\" Despite his reticence, Bowles frankly discusses his \"unconscious\" writing practice, his views on the \"illiterate imagination,\" existentialism, his various experiments with altered states of consciousness, and nearly fifty years of expatriate life in Morocco. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Included are three interviews never before published, several interviews that originally appeared in now obscure journals, plus interviews by Jay Mclnerny for \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeffrey Bailey for \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and Michael Rogers for \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gena Dagel Caponi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0878056505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780878056507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.06w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/1993 pg. 596","brand":"Gena Dagel Caponi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054804136191,"sku":"9780878056507","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_72ca1da4-cdd0-48b4-81d7-0f64b54cadee.jpg?v=1685032092","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-paul-bowles-paul-bowles-9780878056507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}