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Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
I am a sucker for a snappy book cover, and the cover for Paul Auster’s new novella, Man in the Dark , is about as snappy as I’ve seen in a long time. But, as you may recall, there’s a well-worn adage about books and covers. Man in the Dark , a thin volume only eight-and-a-half inches tall and not quite six inches wide, caught my eye with its leafy, mulchy , concretey artwork, beautifully embossed...
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The Dubious Monk (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark was short and a good example of why genre labels are weird. Though this one has a reality shifting character who travels between this world and a world where America is in civil war (and the Yankees and Rockettes have switched roles), because it’s Paul Auster it counts as [...]
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The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
By Michael Dirda Man in the Dark by Paul Auster I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project by Paul Auster Timbuktu by Paul Auster Squeeze Play by Paul Auster, published under the pseudonym Paul Benjamin The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room by Paul Auster with an introduction by Luc Sante In the...
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Words: Irrational (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
For all interested in Geotagging of image files, here is a hands-on review of one of the newest geotaggers available, the ATP Photofinder Mini. Related posts: GeoTagging - Is it worth it? Still on Geotagging “The Invention of Solitude”, Paul Auster - Book Review “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, Sam Harris - Book Review Understanding Composition, Steve Mulligan - Book...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
MOLDY PEACHES rocker ADAM GREEN is writing a Broadway musical about a homeless dog. The play is based on Paul Auster's novella Timbuktu, which is told through the eyes of ...
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Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Buys Nothing this week. I'm saving up for Bender's Game. "Accomplishments" Books: The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster. This short novel about a young woman trying to survive in a postapocalyptic city is infinitely allegorical and though the subject matter is depressing, it keeps the reader's mind alive with images, parallels and analysis. The City is a timeless parade of misery that seems to...
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piran café (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Discussing his latest novel, Man in the Dark, Paul Auster tells The Guardian about the root of his frustrations in recent years. If there is something getting Auster’s goat, it’s American politics. It was his disgust at the outcome of the 2000 US elections that sparked the story-within-a-story at the heart of Man in the Dark, [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The novelist explains his rage at what the Bush presidency has done to the world - and the world we should be living in. Alison Flood in The Guardian:If there is something getting Auster's goat, it's American politics. It was...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The novelist explains his rage at what the Bush presidency has done to the world - and the world we should be living in
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Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
In Paul Auster's novel Man in the Dark, a fictional character is charged with the unusual assignment of assassinating his own author. Giordano Bruno proposed the existence of alternative universes back in the sixteenth century... and he was burnt at the stake. Philip K. Dick did the same thing four hundred years later, and he received only a slightly warmer (or perhaps “cooler” is the better word)...
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Out of the Woods Now (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Paul Auster's Leviathan was published in 1992 and dedicated to Don DeLillo. Its events seem to eerily prefigure Falling Man ... I'll be attending a lecture on this latter work today and it will be interesting to see if the subject comes up.
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reeling and writhing (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
From the 28th issue of Cordite comes this interview of George Dunford's (he of Hackpacker) with Paul Auster. I particularly like Auster's remarks on the dialectic of composition - "I want to get back in that red car" he apparently...
