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    Tangier Love Story: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, and Me
    Tangier Love Story: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, and Me
    Tangier Love Story: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, and Me
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    Tangier Love Story: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, and Me

    By Carol Ardman

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    Carol Ardman traveled to Tangier in 1970 to tend her broken heart and—she hoped—find Jane Bowles, whose writing had literally saved her. Instead she found Paul Bowles at a time when he was as lonely and searching as she was. The two began an unconventional love affair that roiled Tangier’s incestuous expat community and transformed Ardman’s life. Her sumptuously detailed portrait of their relationship is as intimate—and as satisfying—as it gets. Jane and Paul Bowles were at the center of the no-holds-barred expatriate community in Tangier, Morocco, for decades, and they helped define an artistic milieu that included Truman Capote, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Tennessee Williams. Bisexual yet devoted to one another, the Bowleses ignited the imaginations of many, including the young aspiring writer Ardman. Carol Ardman informed her parents in a letter at age five that she intended to become a writer. After graduating from the University of Michigan, she went to New York, supporting herself as a waitress in Greenwich Village, then writing for fan magazines and assisting the blind labor columnist Victor Riesel with research and ghostwriting his Saturday syndicated newspaper columns. Ardman has contributed to the New York Times, the NY Daily News, the Journal of Commerce, Ms. magazine, the Book of Knowledge, and other publications, and her fiction has appeared in Pequod and other literary journals. She is the coauthor with Loren Fishman, MD, of four self-help books for people with medical issues, and she has blogged for medical experts on the Huffington Post. She is currently at work on another memoir and a novel. This is a short e-book published by Shebooks--high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. For more information, visit http://shebooks.net.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShebooks
    Release dateSep 15, 2014
    ISBN9781940838724
    Tangier Love Story: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, and Me
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    Carol Ardman

    Carol Ardman informed her parents in a letter at age five that she intended to become a writer. After graduating from the University of Michigan, she went to New York, supporting herself as a waitress in Greenwich Village, then writing for fan magazines and assisting the blind labor columnist Victor Riesel with research and ghostwriting his Saturday syndicated newspaper columns. Ardman has contributed to the New York Times, the NY Daily News, the Journal of Commerce, Ms. magazine, the Book of Knowledge, and other publications, and her fiction has appeared in Pequod and other literary journals. She is the coauthor with Loren Fishman, MD, of four self-help books for people with medical issues, and she has blogged for medical experts on the Huffington Post. She is currently at work on another memoir and a novel.

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      Tangier Love Story - Carol Ardman

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      Tangier Love Story

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      1.

      Jane Bowles was in the back of my mind when I bought a three-week excursion ticket to Tangier during the summer of 1970. I had read the Collected Works of this writer’s writer and had fallen love with her stories and her characters, in whom I saw deep, previously unarticulated parts of myself. At 28, I was the lonely child she wrote about, desperately trying to control her life, in a story titled A Stick of Green Candy. I was the woman waiting in vain for her husband, the naive American in an unfamiliar culture. Like Jane Bowles’ characters, who made me laugh and cry, I felt stuck in every way. I was living alone in a small Greenwich Village walk-up after a devastating divorce from a composer whose star was on the rise. I had had entry-level jobs in publishing, but now, freelancing as an editor of mediocre paperback romance novels only increased my isolation and sadness.

      If I could ever become a writer—and I had always wanted to, though I didn’t know how, or even why—I would want to write like Jane Bowles. It was ridiculous, but I wanted to become Jane Bowles, whose photo I had studied on the dust jacket of her book, a lovely, sophisticated expatriate with a daring life. I felt I knew her, a young woman sitting outdoors against a background of foliage, her chin in her palm, pensively looking down. She was petite, as I was, and she wore a plaid blouse that could have hung in my closet. Her short dark curls spilled onto her forehead, like mine, but unlike me she wasn’t mired in inertia and failure. Gazing at her photo, I had a crazy thought: If by some strange quirk of fate I were to meet Jane Bowles, it might change everything. Maybe all my problems—especially my difficulty finishing anything I started to write—would disappear.

      And yet, as I packed my bathing suits and sandals, my jeans, my journal and, on a whim, a piece of good blue stationery for my trip to Morocco, I wasn’t really thinking of the writer I idolized. Or of her husband, Paul Bowles, though a friend had given me a copy of his book The Sheltering Sky to read on my trip. I was looking forward to some rest and rejuvenation, a mood-lifting 21-day vacation, to getting a tan, sleeping in, maybe dancing with a handsome stranger, but most importantly turning a page on my stalled, sad existence.

      2.

      By the time I left for Morocco, both Jane and Paul Bowles were

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