For Bread Alone Mohamed Choukri
Publisher: Telegram Books

Though personally, I beg to differ. Myself in particular…because 13 days ago I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. I first read Mohamed Choukri's memoir For Bread Alone when I was working on A Basket of Leaves. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. Mohamed Choukri--For Bread Alone. Man cannot live by bread along. Emma Goldman spent two years in the dank prison on Blackwell's Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for saying in a speech to a group of workers: “Give us work. Years ago, in college, when someone put a copy of Naked Lunch into my hands and (reluctantly) I read it, I thought that Burroughs had lived the most depressing life I could imagine. I considered using it as one of the books I discussed for Morocco, but before I had read very far I stopped considering it. Man does not live by bread alone; we need hopes and dreams, love and laughter, human contact and connection. It's always a challenge, especially on holiday or on the road, to find good coffee. Man can't survive by bread alone. For Bread Alone is Mohamed Choukri's autobiography, translated by Paul Bowles of The Sheltering Sky fame, collaborated with Mohamed Choukri to write an account of Choukri's early years of his life. €But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone. I usually end up not drinking it at all, I have been disappointed too many times, even in Italy.