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Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)
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Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee
Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, “God willing, strike sparks off each other.”
 
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Tags: Coetzee, Auster, letters, regular, exchanging
The New York Trilogy (mp3)
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The New York Trilogy (mp3)The New York Trilogy (mp3)

Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock film as a writer of detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author — Paul Auster — himself 
 
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Tags: Glass, detective, Auster, fiction, embroiled, Trilogy
The New York Trilogy
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The New York Trilogy By Paul AusterThe New York Trilogy By Paul Auster

This volume includes three novellas by Auster: City of glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

City of Glass

As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written.

Ghosts

Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired to spy on Black. From a window of a rented house on Orange street, Blue stalks his subject, who is staring out of his window.
 
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Tags: Ghosts, Auster, Glass, Trilogy, window, three
Collected Prose
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Collected ProseCollected Prose

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.
 
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Man in the Dark
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Paul Auster - Man in the DarkPaul Auster - Man in the Dark

So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget
 
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Tags: about, Auster, tells, himself, refuses