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In Oracle Night, Paul Auster returns to one of his favorite themes: writing about writers and the act of writing. Recovering from a severe illness that has left him weak and prone to nosebleeds, struggling novelist Sidney Orr takes the suggestion of his mentor, the acclaimed novelist John Trause, and begins a story about a man who, upon considering a near-death experience as an omen (or excuse), walks out on his wife and begins a new life. Nick Bowen, Orr's protagonist, moves to Kansas City and finds work with a man engaged in creating a sort of catalogue of all known persons from a warehouse filled with phonebooks.
Col. Jack O'Neill and his SG-1 team find themselves stranded on a primitive world where the inhabitants pay homage to the Goa'uld by providing their best specimens as host bodies for their young. Doing so, they would avert total annihilation...while the hosts would be doomed to a living death. For years, the helpless supplicants have been sacrificed. With the new "payment" about to be sent, the team struggles to rescue a terrified populace that does not want their help, while facing the possibility of being marooned forever. And one fact overshadows all else—the Goa'uld are already on their way....
An interesting collection for fans of Auster, even if not all essays are easy to appreciate (the ones about French poetry, for instance). Above all, it was a fascinating read, especially for "The Invention of Solitude" and "Hand to Mouth". Auster's informed enthusiasms, especially for European modernism and aspects of the avant-garde, make him a passionate, intelligent, and stimulating commentator. He writes acutely about the dilemmas which inform serious artistic decisions. The hospitable, generous pieces make one want to go immediately to the writers he discusses.
