Post #1624318
2026-04-19 06:36 UTC
When the then best-selling novelist Jay McInerney visited Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1985, for Vanity Fair, one of his most intriguing observations was that, "Bowles makes his way around town in a bronze 1967 Mustang."
Photos by Mary Ellen Mark
https://www.maryellenmark.com/bibliography/magazines/article/vanity-fair/paul-bowles-in-exile-637529608261264050/V
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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town 2026-04-19 06:37
Bowles on William Burroughs's claim that he didn't remember writing Naked Lunch: "He ought to remember it. It was all over the floor. There were hundreds of pages of yellow foolscap all over the floor, month after month, with heelprints on them, rat droppings, bits of old sandwiches, sardines..."
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@wedge@woodworking.group 2026-04-19 09:05
@ccohanlon Escorted by Mohammed Mrabet, now 90, ‘the last of the Mohicans of the Beat Generation’. His art is highly sought by collectors in France and difficult to find available.
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@wedge@woodworking.group 2026-04-19 09:09
@ccohanlon Dude stayed in good shape. Might be why he lives so long.