This collection of stories is the earliest one from Paul Bowles I could find. He was a renowned composer (friend and colleague of Aaron Copland for example) and just up and decided to write a handful of novels and a lot of stories. These stories kind of take place all over the place, from North Africa to Mexico and Central America, as well as a few nameless places. He, in a way, almost writes anti-Hemingway short stories. These aren’t the stories of masculine men revealing […]