Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Listen and read as much as you want
  • Over 400 000+ titles
  • Bestsellers in 10+ Indian languages
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe now
Cover for A Distant Episode

A Distant Episode

Duration
15H 37min
Language
English
Format
Category

Short stories

A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as 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.

© 2022 Ecco (Audiobook): 9780063136335

Release date

Audiobook: 13 September 2022

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. Days
    Days Paul Bowles
  2. Exiled: A Novel
    Exiled: A Novel César Vidal
  3. The Spider's House: A Novel
    The Spider's House: A Novel Paul Bowles
  4. Mrs. Ted Bliss
    Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin
  5. Hunts in Dreams
    Hunts in Dreams Tom Drury
  6. The Stone World: A Novel
    The Stone World: A Novel Joel Agee
  7. Brisbane: A Novel
    Brisbane: A Novel Eugene Vodolazkin
  8. Points in Time
    Points in Time Paul Bowles
  9. A Summons to Memphis
    A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor
  10. Hunger
    Hunger Lan Samantha Chang
  11. Oreo
    Oreo Fran Ross
  12. Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue
    Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue Paul Bowles
  13. Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
    Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser Susan Bernofsky
  14. Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
    Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten Marie Corelli
  15. The Best American Essays 2024
    The Best American Essays 2024 Wesley Morris, Kim Dana Kupperman
  16. A Gathering of Old Men
    A Gathering of Old Men Ernest J. Gaines
  17. Gringos
    Gringos Charles Portis
  18. By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
    By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy George Gissing
  19. Stories of New York
    Stories of New York various authors, Edith Wharton, Bliss Perry, Annie Eliot, George A. Hibbard, John S. Wood
  20. The Torontonians
    The Torontonians Phyllis Brett Young
  21. Antonio
    Antonio Beatriz Bracher
  22. Arrowsmith
    Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
  23. The Man Who Couldn't Eat
    The Man Who Couldn't Eat Jon Reiner
  24. So Big
    So Big Edna Ferber
  25. A Story Teller's Story
    A Story Teller's Story Sherwood Anderson
  26. The Uninnocent: Stories
    The Uninnocent: Stories Bradford Morrow
  27. The Minister Primarily: A Novel
    The Minister Primarily: A Novel John Oliver Killens
  28. CLEAN AIR
    CLEAN AIR Gianfranco Rosolia
  29. The End of Vandalism
    The End of Vandalism Tom Drury, Jesse LaVercombe
  30. The Long Gaze Back
    The Long Gaze Back Sinéad Gleeson
  31. Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works
    Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works John Ashbery
  32. Cane
    Cane Jean Toomer
  33. Babbitt
    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
  34. Pacific: A Novel
    Pacific: A Novel Tom Drury, Jesse LaVercombe
  35. The Awakening
    The Awakening Kate Chopin
  36. Death Comes for the Archbishop: Enriched edition.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop: Enriched edition. Willa Cather
  37. Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
    Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany Charles Portis
  38. Savage Tongues
    Savage Tongues Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
  39. Bliss and Other Stories
    Bliss and Other Stories Katherine Mansfield
  40. Old New York
    Old New York Edith Wharton
  41. Good Trouble
    Good Trouble Joseph O’Neill
  42. The Stories of Paul Bowles
    The Stories of Paul Bowles Paul Bowles
  43. Inheritance
    Inheritance Lan Samantha Chang
  44. The Job: An American Novel
    The Job: An American Novel Sinclair Lewis
  45. Dinner at the Centre of the Earth
    Dinner at the Centre of the Earth Nathan Englander
  46. Here in Berlin
    Here in Berlin Cristina Garcia
  47. Remembering Laughter
    Remembering Laughter Wallace Stegner
  48. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
    House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East Anthony Shadid
  49. Collected Poems 1947-1997
    Collected Poems 1947-1997 Allen Ginsberg
  50. For Us All
    For Us All Jeanne Sakata
  51. Sons and Lovers
    Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence
  52. Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
    Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders Li Juan
  53. The Brass Bottle
    The Brass Bottle F. Anstey
  54. Heaven's My Destination: A Novel
    Heaven's My Destination: A Novel Thornton Wilder
  55. Main Street
    Main Street Sinclair Lewis
  56. All About “All About Eve”: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made
    All About “All About Eve”: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made Sam Staggs
  57. The Rabbit Factory
    The Rabbit Factory Larry Brown
  58. O Pioneers: Settling the Frontier
    O Pioneers: Settling the Frontier Willa Cather
  59. Fools
    Fools Joan Silber
  60. Ethan Frome
    Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
  61. And Even Now
    And Even Now Max Beerbohm
  62. Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights
    Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights Alephonsion Deng, Judy A. Bernstein
  63. Hamilton Stark
    Hamilton Stark Russell Banks
  64. Kingdom Cons
    Kingdom Cons Yuri Herrera
  65. The Lost Shtetl: A Novel
    The Lost Shtetl: A Novel Max Gross
  66. Saving the World
    Saving the World Julia Alvarez
  67. All of Us Together in the End
    All of Us Together in the End Matthew Vollmer
  68. The Charterhouse of Parma
    The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
  69. Pipeline
    Pipeline Dominique Morisseau
  70. The Innocents: A Story for Lovers
    The Innocents: A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis
  71. America Fantastica: A Novel
    America Fantastica: A Novel Tim O'Brien
  72. Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry: Stories
    Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry: Stories Elizabeth McCracken
  73. Daphnis and Chloe
    Daphnis and Chloe Longus
  74. Vanishing
    Vanishing Gerard Woodward
  75. Stone Arabia
    Stone Arabia Dana Spiotta
  76. The Dog of the South
    The Dog of the South Charles Portis
  77. Uncle Tom's Children
    Uncle Tom's Children Richard Wright
  78. Pink Mist
    Pink Mist Owen Sheers
  79. We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day
    We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day Ivana Bodrozic
  80. Typee
    Typee Herman Melville
  81. Albert & the Whale
    Albert & the Whale Philip Hoare
  82. Norwood
    Norwood Charles Portis
  83. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
    The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease Daisy Hernández
  84. The Sea Inside
    The Sea Inside Philip Hoare
  85. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Max Shulman
  86. Welcome Thieves
    Welcome Thieves Sean Beaudoin
  87. Recapitulation
    Recapitulation Wallace Stegner