The Moth Radio Hour
Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah
A boy's bar mitzvah becomes a family battle ground; three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco; and a novelist decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world.
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Jeffrey Solomon's divorced parents fight during his
bar mitzvah but his older sister saves the day.
Edgar Oliver takes a wild journey to Morocco to discover that he has the same bed spread as Paul Bowles.
Elif Shafak (pictured) is a Turkish novelist whose determination to finish a book is finally rattled by an earthquake.
Hosted by George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth.
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Photo: Sarah Stacks