Gary Pulsifer's "Paul Bowles by His Friends" (1992)

London, England: Peter Owen (book, anthology), 1992.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.5", 160 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-7206-0866-X.

Paul Bowles by His Friends: A Revealing Portrait, edited by Gary Pulsifer and published in softcover by Peter Owen (London, England) in 1992. This is a collection of writings and photographs on Paul Bowles.

This includes work by Burroughs as well as multiple mentions throughout.

Burroughs contributes a recollection of Paul Bowles at page 14.

A conversation between William S. Burroughs and Francis Bacon from 1986 entitled “Art, Death and Immortality over a Naked Lunch” is at pages 15-19.

John Hopkins’ “Extracts from a Journal: Paul Bowles in Tangier”, pp. 59-65 contains multiple mentions of Burroughs.

This copy was acquired from Bungalow Books (Pueblo, Colorado, US).

Shoaf II.294.

Contents:

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Gary Pulsifer: Introduction
• Melvyn Bragg: "Listening to Port" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: on Paul Bowles
• William S. Burroughs and Francis Bacon: "Art, Death and Immortality over a Naked Lunch" (interview)
• Photo Section:
• Allen Ginsberg: "Paul Bowles, an early photograph"
• Phillip Ramey: "Paul Bowles smoking, 1991"
• Marguerite McBey: watercoulour of Paul Bowles
• Phillip Ramey: "Gavin Young with Paul Bowles, 1988"
• Roberto de Hollanda: "Scattering Brion Gysin's ashes. Paul Bowles and Anne Cumming, January 1986 [sic, 1987]"
• Phillip Ramey: "Paul Bowles with an electronic keyboard at the Grand Hotel Villa de France, Tangier, 1987"
• Phillip Ramey: "Portrait: Paul Bowles at Eighty for Piano" (score)
• Phillip Ramey: "Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Paul Bowles and David Herbert, 1988"
• Cherie Nutting: "Krazy Kat, Paul Bowles and Phillip Ramey, 1990"
• Ira Cohen: "Paul Bowles with Mohammed Mrabet"
• Ira Cohen: "Paul Bowles with Raphael Alladin Cohen, Phillip Ramer and Terry Wilson"
• John Cage: "Paul Bowles" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Minbad, Sinbad" (memoir)
• Gregory Corso: memoir of Paul Bowles
• Anne Cumming [Felicity Mason]: A Reticent Man" (memoir of Paul Bowles)
• Millicent Dillon: "Meeting Paul" (memoir)
• Ruth Fainlight: "A Memoir of Tangier and Paul Bowles" (memoir)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: note on Paul Bowles
• Charles Henri Ford: "Five Haiku for Paul Frederic Bowles" (poetry)
• David Herbert: "From Second Son" (memoir)
• Patricia Highsmith: "A North African Encounter" (memoir)
• John Hopkins: "Extracts from a Journal: Paul Bowles in Tangier" (journal)
  
• Buffie Johnson: "Memoirs of Paul Bowles in the Forties" (memoir)
• Gavin Lambert: memoir of Paul Bowles
• Nicholas Lezard: "Living Alone on the Fringes of Literature" (memoir)
• Marguerite McBey: memoir of Paul Bowles
• Joseph A. McPhillips III: memoir of Paul Bowles
• Peter Owen: "Who Is Paul Bowles?" (memoir)
• James Purdy: memoir of Paul Bowles
• Phillip Ramey: "A Time of Friendship" (memoir)
• Richard Rayner: "Relishing the Abyss and the Furies" (essay)
• Edouard Roditi: "Sixty Years of Friendship with Paul Bowles" (memoir)
• Ned Rorem: "A Note on Paul Bowles" (memoir)
• John Ryle: "A Refuge in the Shadows of the Tangier Casbah" (memoir)
• Maria St. Just: memoir of Paul Bowles
• Emilio Sanz de Soto: "Spanish and Latin-American Names in Paul Bowles's World" (memoir)
• Stephen Spender: memoir of Paul Bowles
• Claude-Nathalie Thomas: "A Translator's Experience" (memoir)
• Gore Vidal: "Paul Bowles's Stories" (essay)
• Terry Wilson: "Tangier 90" (memoir)
• Gavin Young: memoir of Paul Bowles
• About the Contributors