Volume 18, Number 9 · May 18, 1972
Untold Tales
By Virgil Thomson
Without Stopping: An Autobiography
by Paul Bowles
Putnam's, 379 pp., $7.95
The Thicket of Spring: Poems 1926-1969
by Paul Bowles
Black Sparrow, 56 pp., $3.00 (paper)
Paul Bowles was in the Orson Welles-John Houseman orbit, which was discussed in the last issue, for two shows—Horse Eats Hat and Dr. Faustus—and for one play never produced, William C. Gillette's farce Too Much Johnson—though some film-making for certain parts of that play did go on, intended for interpolation with music by Bowles. He was almost exclusively a composer during the 1930s. Earlier, in the late Twenties, he had written poetry and published in blues, transition, and other spots of the literary outfield. In the Forties he took up fiction and travel writing, through both of which he has earned money and an international public.
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