• Jorge Luis Borges. Argentine writer. (b. Aug. 24, 1899, d. June 14, 1986) One of my favorite short story writers. Author of "The Library of Babel."
• Paul Bowles. American writer (b. New York City, Dec. 30, 1910). Author of one of my favorite novels, The Sheltering Sky.
• William S. Burroughs. American writer. (b. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 5, 1914). Legendary writer whose Naked Lunch is the dark and darkly funny tonic of the Beat Movement. A prized possession in my collection of books: a signed copy of Naked Lunch.
• Julio Cortazar. Argentine writer. (b. Aug. 26, 1914, d. Feb. 12, 1984). Another master of the short story, his "Blow Up" provided the inspiration for Michaelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name. His Hopscotch is one of my favorite novels. He's not as well-known as the other three above, but he is one of the best novellists of the 20th century.

Jorge Luis Borges

Books by Borges in John's personal library

• A Personal Anthology. © 1967 by Grove Press. ISBN: 0-394-17270-1/Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-29764. Originally published as Antologia Personal in 1961 by Editorial Sur, S.A., Buenos Aires.
• Labyrinths. Modern Library edition, September 1983. © 1962, 1964 by New Directions Publishing Corp. ISBN: 0-394-60449-0/Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-42700.
• Ficciones. © 1962 by Grove Press. ISBN: 0-394-17244-2/Library of Congress: 62-13052.
• The Book of Imaginary Beings. With Margarita Guerrero. Revised, enlarged and translated by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni in collaboration with the author. © 1969. Original title, El Libro De Los Seres Imaginarios, © 1967 by Editorial Kier, S.A., Buenos Aires. ISBN: 0-525-47538-9/Library of Congress: 76-87180.

Also by Borges:

• Dreamtigers, Other Inquisitions 1937-1952, The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, Doctor Brodie's Report, Selected Poems 1923-1967, A Universal History of Infamy, In Praise of Darkness, Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, The Gold of the Tigers, The Book of Sand.
  

Links to other sites with information on Borges 

• The Works of Borges
• Images of Jorge Luis Borges
• Jorge Luis Borges
• 'Moments' by Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Bowles

Update - April 5, 2004. Today I received a very nice message from Kenneth Lisenbee, a Tangiers neighbor and good friend of Paul Bowles. Kenneth is also the webmaster for PaulBowles.org, and he's notified me of that wonderful site as well as the upcoming publication of a new biography on Bowles in October of 2004, Paul Bowles: A Life, by Virginia Spencer Carr. Scribner.

Books by Paul Bowles in John's personal library

• The Sheltering Sky. © 1949, renewed 1977. Published in 1978 by The Ecco Press, New York. ISBN: 0-912946-43-1/Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-22233. Fifth printing, August 1983.
• Up Above the World. © 1966. Published by The Ecco Press (NY) in 1982. ISBN: 0-88001-302-8/Library of Congress: 82-2357. Fourth printing, 1992.
• Collected Stories. © 1945-'51, '54-'55, '57-'58, '61-'62, '64, '67, '70, '72, '74, '76-'77, '79 by Paul Bowles. Published by Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara. Seventh Printing, 1983. ISBN: 0-87685-396-3 (pbk.)/Library of Congress: 79-4569.
• Points in Time. © 1982 by Paul Bowles. Published by The Ecco Press, 1984 (Reprint. Originally published: London: P. Owen, 1982.). ISBN: 0-88001-044-4/Library of Congress: 83-16571.
• Unwelcome Words - Seven Stories. © 1988 by Paul Bowles. Published by Tombouctou Books, Bolinas CA, 1988. ISBN: 0-939180-44-8 (trade edition)/Library of Congress: 87-50349.

Poetry

• Next to Nothing: Collected Poems 1926-1981. © 1972, 1977 by Paul Bowles. Published by Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1981. ISBN: 0-87685-504-4 (pbk.)/Library of Congress: 81-1483.

Translations

• Five Eyes. Stories by Abdeslam Boulaich, Mohamed Choukri, Larbi Layachi, Mohammed Mrabet, and Ahmed Yacoubi. Black Sparrow Press, 1979. ISBN: 0-87685-408-0 (paper edition)/Library of Congress: 79-16941.
• A Life Full of Holes. By Larbi Layachi (Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi). Grove Press (NY) 1982. First Published by Black Cat Press, 1966. ISBN: 0-394-17946-3/Library of Congress: 81-47638.
• The Big Mirror. By Mohammed Mrabet (Mohammed ben Chaib el Hajjem). Black Sparror Pres, 1977. ISBN: 0-87685-368-8 (trade cloth edition)/Library of Congress: 77-5917

Travel

• Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue - Scenes from the Non-Christian World. © 1957, 1963 by Paul Bowles. Published by The Ecco Press (NY) 1984 (Originally published: NY: Random House, 1963). ISBN: 0-88001-043-6/Library of Congress: 83-16577.

Biography

• An Invisible Spectator - Paul Bowles. © 1989 by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. The Ecco Press (NY) 1990. ISBN: 0-88001-257-9/Library of Congress: 90-30333. [Bowles denounced the book and author in a letter to a Boston newspaper]

Critical Studies on Bowles

• A World Outside - The Fiction of Paul Bowles. (*See links below). By Richard F. Patteson. © 1987 by the University of Texas Press (Austin). ISBN: 0-292-79035-x/Library of Congress: 86-19310.

Also by Paul Bowles

• Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, The Delicate Prey, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, The Time of Friendship, Things Gone and Things Still Here, Yallah, Two Poems, Scenes, The Thicket of Spring, Without Stopping. More translations: Love with A Few Hairs (Mrabet), The Lemon (Mrabet), M'Hashish (Mrabet), The Boy Who Set the Fire (Mrabet), Look & More On (Mrabet), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (Mrabet)

Links to other sites with information on Bowles 

• PaulBowles.org - major estate-sanctioned site launched in 1999
• Beat Places: Tangier
• G. Kalsbeek -- Amsterdam -- The Netherlands

[thanks for the updates, G. Kalsbeek! -- JT]

William S. Burroughs

Books by William S. Burroughs in John's personal library

• Naked Lunch Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition. Signed (179/500). © 1959 by William Burroughs. First Grove Press Edition 1959. 25th Anniversary Edition first printing: 1984. ISBN: 0-394-53884-6/Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-49461.
• The Yage Letters. with Allen Ginsburg. © 1963, 1975 by William Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco. Tenth Printing, January 1986. ISBN: 0-87286-004-3/Library of Congress.
• Queer. © 1985 by William Burroughs. Published by Viking Penguin, Inc. (NY). ISBN: 0-670-80933-4/Library of Congress: 85-10524.
• Cities of the Red Night. © 1981 by William Burroughs. An Owl Book published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1981, First Owl Book Edition, 1982. ISBN: 0-03-061521-6/Library of Congress: 80-13637.
• The Place of Dead Roads. ©1983 by William Burroughs. An Owl Book published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1984, First Owl Book Edition, 1985. ISBN: 0-03-003684-4/Library of Congress: 83-8498.
• The Western Lands. © 1987 by William Burroughs. Pubished by Penguin 1988, first published in 1987. ISBN: 0-14-009456-3/Library of Congress: 88-17455.
• Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts - The Book of Breathing/Electronic Revolution. © 1971, '74, '75, '79 by William Burroughs. Published by Riverrun Press (NY)/John Calder (London) 1979. ISBN: 0-7145-3683-0/Library of Congress: 80-460124.
• The Burroughs File. © 1984 by William Burroughs. Published by City Lights Books (SF) 1984. ISBN: 0-87286-152-x/Library of Congress: 84-4216.

Books on Tape

• Naked Lunch. An Abridgement. © 1959, 1962, ren. 1987, 1990 William S. Burroughs. Abridgement read and approved by the author. (P) & © 1995 Warner Audio Video Entertainment. ISBN: 1-57042-220-6
• Uncommon Quotes. © 1988 by Caravan of Dreams Productions (Fort Worth). Recorded live at the Caravan of Dreams, September 11, 1986. ISBN: 0-929856-00-7/CDPT 85011/cassette book series.

Periodicals

• RE/Search (#45) - William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin. © 1982 by Re/Search Publications (SF).

Biography

• Literary Outlaw - The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. © 1988 by Ted Morgan. Henry Holt & Co (NY). Library of Congress: 88-9290

Also by William S. Burroughs

• Junky, The Soft Machine, The Ticket that Exploded, Dead Fingers Talk, The Third Mind, Nova Express, The Job, The Wild Boys, Exterminator!, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Port of Saints.

Links to other sites with information on William S. Burroughs 

• The William Burroughs File
• Willam Burroughs
• William Burroughs at Yahoo's author page

Julio Cortazar

Books by Julio Cortazar in John's personal library

• Hopscotch. First printing. © 1966, by Random House, Inc. a Division of Pantheon Books (NY). Originally published in Spanish as Rayuela in 1963, Editorial Sudamericana Sociedad Anónima. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-10409.
• The Winners. © 1965 Random House, Inc. Pantheon Modern Writers paperback edition. Originally published in Argentina as Los Premios by Editorial Sudamericana Sociedad Anónima in 1960. ISBN: 0-394-72301-5/Library of Congress: 64-18305.
• The End of the Game and Other Stories. © 1963, 1967 by Random House. Colophon Edition 1978. ISBN: 0-06-090637-5.
• 62: A Model Kit. © 1972 by Random House (NY). Avon/Bard edition - 1st Bard Printing 1973. ISBN:0-380-01497-1/Library of Congress: 72-3406.
• All Fires the Fire. Short stories. © 1973 by Random House. Pantheon Modern Writers paperback edition. Originally published in Buenos Aires as todos los fuegos el fuego by Editorial Sudamericana Sociedad Anónima in 1966. ISBN: 0-394-75358-5/Library of Congress: 73-2937.
• Around the Day in Eighty Worlds. © 1966, '67, '74, '75, '84 by Julio Corta;zar. Published by North Point Press (SF) 1986. ISBN: 0-86547-204-1/Library of Congress: 85-60863.
• We Love Glenda So Much and A Change of Light. Aventura/VintageLibrary of Contemporary World Literature edition. © 1983 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN: 394-72293/Library of Congress: 83-40387.

Links to other sites with information on Cortazar 

• Julio Cortazar en fotos
• Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch
• Julio Danis Cortazar
• This Text
• A Generation of Proto-Hypertext Documents