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Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah

A Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground; literary pilgrims search for Paul Bowles in Morocco; a novelist tries to cure her writer’s block by blocking out the world.

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Mar 2, 2014 • 1 min read

Jeffrey Solomon's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground. Literary pilgrim Edgar Oliver and friends search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco. And novelist Elif Shafak (pictured) decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world. Hosted by George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth.

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