A Distant Episode

<p><i>A Distant Episode</i> conatins the best of Paul Bowle's short fiction, selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney. His first novel, <i>The Sheltering Sky</i>, was a best-seller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990.