More Bowles. Only this time, Jane. I've wanted this for a long time and stumbled on a cheap copy ($10!).

#JaneBowles @bookstodon

More Bowles. Only this time, Jane. I've wanted this for a long time and stumbled on a cheap copy ($10!).

#JaneBowles @bookstodon

"I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway."

#JaneBowles

"...it is my idea that sometimes age affects us like youth, like strong champagne that goes to our heads, and we dare what we have never dared before, perhaps also because we feel that it is our last chance..."

Excerpt from a #letter in TWO SERIOUS LAIDES (1943) by #JaneBowles

I'm willing to put friendship on the line when it comes to #bookrecs. I can't be friends with someone who doesn't like [insert author].

#JaneBowles is high up on my list of writers that can make or break a friendship. She's a #TrueOriginal

My #PasteUp of Jane & her lover #Cherifa from 2009.

#index entry on Cherifa from Millicent Dillon's biography of Jane Bowles: A Little Original Sin.

p 236: "Cherifa...was handsome and had gold teeth. Like Janie she was unpredictable."

#indexodon #indexes