“For years, I've heard about Jane Bowles, what a good writer she is, and now it is no longer necessary to wonder about her, for all her works are again in print, in a think, handsome volume which includes her novel, Two Serious Ladies, her play, In the Summer House, plus ten short stories and three passages from her notebooks.” —Anatole Broyard

“It is hope that she will be recognized for what she is: one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language . . . No other contemporary writer can consistently produce surprise of this quality, the surprise that is the one essential ingredient of great art. Jane Bowles deals almost exclusively in this rare commodity.” —John Ashbery, The New York Times Book Review