Bill Bowler

Bewildering Stories biography

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Bill was born in New York City in 1950. He graduated from Columbia University in 1972 and received a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of Michigan in 1981.

At the age of 31, without giving it much thought, he bailed out of academia and went back to New York to live in a rundown tenement, write poetry and prose, chase girls, and pursue the Bohemian life. He became one of the few practicing busboys in New York to hold a doctorate.

After a period of aimless drifting and a series of zigzags, Bill panicked and got a real job in an office. He held the day job for thirty years.

Thanks to Don Webb, Bewildering Stories has published a lot of Bill's poems and short stories. It's a great place to be.

Current reading: P.K. Dick's Exigesis, a biography of Marshal Konev (in Russian), Heidegger's Being and Time (unintelligible but mind-boggling), Yeats, Jack Vance.

Bill lives on YouTube where his attention span has dropped to about a minute and a half. The last movie he watched through to the end was The Monster of Piedras Blancas. During the day, he plays video games.

Bill remembers when Nixon was president and the world was engulfed in madness. It's a good thing we won all the wars but somehow it still feels like 1968. Meanwhile, as time flies by or comes to a crawl, he lives in contemplative and comfortable retirement, writing, cooking up a storm, with his beautiful wife in a cozy apartment in the middle of “the city so nice, they named it twice,” New York, New York.

Bewildering Stories bibliography

Bewildering Stories interviews Bill Bowler

Prose Fiction		Translations
Broken Parts Significant Other A Robot’s Faith Heart Too Hard Birds of a Feather Make Mine a Double Andrea Garbage Planet Zero Ping Hallowed Space Ernest Hart Ayla Bodkins the Great parts 1-3; parts 4-6 The Wall Robo-Bug Charlenes 2 and 3	Prose Serials The Boy With Orange Hair chapters 1-2, 3-5, 6-9, 10-11, 12-13 Upwyr The Bohemian High School Honey The Shepherd of Zakhbaal The House of Mammoth Bones	Kir Bulychev, Half a Life Natan Dubovitsky, Without Sky

Poetry
Nipple Confusion The Hand Draws the Pen To the Junkies on 48th & 9th Young Poets Erato He Gobbled Up the Minutes Shards of Glass Ars Poetica History of the Last Five Seconds Retirement Time	Poetry Serials His & Hers Speaking in Tongues Hearing Voices Seeing Things Poems to Louise H. A Poem for Edgar Allan Poe Reading Wallace Stevens Reading Carlos Williams Reading Poe Reading Blake
	Non-Fiction Science Fictional Politics Supply and Demand in Science Fiction Narration and Point of View Science Fictional Politics, II Code and Message in “David’s Angel” Narrative Time Translating Russian Poetry A Perspective from the Past High School Honey: Confessions of a Conflicted Author