In a letter written to Bernardo during the shooting of The Sheltering Sky (from July in streaming on the The Criterion Channel), Paul Bowles responds to the request to list the books that Kit and Port may have chosen for their journey into the desert. The letter is typed on white letter paper. These are the books, we entrust them to you for your summers, which can be inhabited by travel:
Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
Amerika by Franz Kafka
The Wrong Set by Angus Wilson
Night Wood by Djuna Barnes
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
The Oasis by Mary McCarthy
Phoenix by D.H. Lawrence
