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."
"...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 LADIES (1943) by #JaneBowles
"I have gone to pieces, which is a thing I've wanted to do for years."
TWO SERIOUS LADIES (1943) #JaneBowles