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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland Writing is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's the first impression you get from this fourth anthology of interviews with authors about their art, which are arranged chronologically from William Styron in 1954 to Marilynne Robinson in 2008. "Let's...
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Soundwalk NYC Bronx Hip Hop (EN) 1.2 Category: Travel Price: $1.99 -> Free ( iTunes ) Description: SOUNDWALK BRONX HIP HOP SOUNDWALK Soundwalks are audio tours that use the cityscape as a backdrop for a fiction, like in a movie. You can escort Virginie Ledoyen through a romantic flanerie at the steps of musician Benjamin Biolay’s in Saint-Germain-des-Prés... Paul Auster evokes the...
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Late November brings work of another favorite Madrileño to the forefront. The final book of Javier Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, will be published at the end of the month by New Directions. The incomparable Marias will make two New York appearances, a reading at the 92nd St Y (with Paul Auster) [...]
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Throughout his career, Paul Auster has invented puzzle-box novels where the puzzle is less in the plot, which often seems to bore him slightly, and more in the construction of the novel itself. It’s common to find an Auster novel where the answers don’t emerge from the storyline or the characters, but from what tense he tells the story in, or the point of view he adopts throughout. His...
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Whisky Prajer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The “novel of ideas” is highly feted by the smarty-pants set, but I’ve usually had trouble finishing one. Those few that I’ve read to completion fall considerably short of my “desert island” list. Paul Auster , whose Moon Palace still resides near the top of said list, failed to impress me with his New York Trilogy ( A ) — City Of Glass was, I thought, especially...
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fait accompli (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Contradicta Information plus passion=knowledge; information minus passion= document * * * Success consists of 1% holding forth and 99% holding back. * * * * * Contradicta Feelings are the language of experience; words tell us what the world wants-and needs- from us and are maps to what we want and need from the world. * * * Silence in response to biting words helps make thought into a kind of music....
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Breaking the Fourth Wall (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Dreamers of the Day : I think Mary Doria Russell is one of the best authors around. Usually, I like an author for a book or two, but then it becomes clear that all of their books have a general style that I'm done with. That's why I'm always stumped when people ask me my favorite authors. I rarely read everything an author writes. But Mary Doria Russell has written a group of books that seem to have...
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<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
I like Paul Auster. New one, Invisible, looks weird. Anybody read it?
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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
I'm one of those people who sort of wondered if Paul Auster wasn't going to try and milk the grand, if pretty much complete, achievement he made in The New York Trilogy for the rest of the career. The good news is, apparently not: I was not a fan of Auster’s last few books. “Invisible ” is his 15th novel, and I was afraid that this would be, as I felt with his recent work, another...
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
In visible by Paul Auster Joanna Briscoe reads a novel that rocket-charges the reader through games and structural devices The Guardian, Saturday 14 November 2009 Invisible by Paul Auster Faber and Faber, £16.99 Paul Auster has created what amounts to his own, self-referential fictional world over the years, and Invisible is packed with typical Auster tropes. This is his 13th novel, and at times...
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Paul Auster is associated with two things, both in constant flux: the novel and New York City. The author of "The New York Trilogy," "The Brooklyn Follies," and the new "Invisible" estimates in his Big Think interview that he's spent at least 55 total years in the Big Apple, during which he has witnessed a profound evolution from the "gracious place" of his...
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Northern Readers (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Paul Auster has been described as “a one trick pony that’s saddled up and left town” so much in thrall to the conventions of metafiction that any narrative drowns under the weight of post modern literary artifice. This is arguably not the case with “Invisible”. Whilst the trademark preoccupations (memory, truth, despair …) are present they don’t obtrude. This...
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Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Sorry for such late notice. But I just remembered to list this. If you're not doing anything or can manage to get away: Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO is hosting a free reading, book signing and discussion with Paul Auster: John Freeman, editor of Granta and former chair of the National Book Critics Circle, will host the evening and discuss with Auster his new book, which has been heralded as his most passionate...
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Cravings (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Man in the Dark By Paul Auster (Picador, 2008) After Dark By Haruki Murakami (Random House, 2007) White Star 21 Essex St (Canal & Hester Sts) New York, NY 10002 212-955-5464 I recently picked up two books by two of my favorite authors, and both shared the theme of the hours when the world is supposedly reposing. Or is it? Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark intertwines the story of the colorful...
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