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Article: In Touch: the Letters of Paul Bowles.(Book Review)
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- Hollins Critic
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- February 1, 1995
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In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles. Edited by Jeffrey Miller. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $35.00. (h.b.)
Jeffrey Miller, the author of Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography, has performed another valuable service. (The letters have been selected from more than seven thousand written over a period of sixty years.) Although I can use this collection in various ways--I can demonstrate his increasing reputation as a writer (after his achievement as a composer); his significance as a "legend" to such diverse writers as Ginsberg and Alfred Chester and Burroughs; his desire to serve little magazines and presses (The Threepenny Review, Antaeus, Cadmus Editions ...