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Paul Auster

Paul Auster is the author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. ‘You Remember the Planes’ in Granta 125: After the War, is adapted from Report from the Interior, published in November by Faber & Faber in the UK, Henry Holt in the US and McClelland & Stewart in Canada.

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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Paul Auster In Conversation

Paul Auster & Luke Neima

Paul Auster in conversation about existential doubt, where he finds his inspiration, and the writing of his longest novel to date, 4 3 2 1.

Fiction | Issue 137
Fiction | Issue 137

4 3 2 1: Overture

Paul Auster

‘According to family legend, Ferguson’s grandfather departed on foot from his native city of Minsk with one hundred rubles sewn into the lining of his jacket’

An extract from 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 125
Essays & Memoir | Issue 125

You Remember the Planes

Paul Auster

‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’

An essay by Paul Auster.

In Conversation | Issue 117
In Conversation | Issue 117

Don DeLillo & Paul Auster | Podcast

Paul Auster & Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo and Paul Auster discuss their work in Granta 117: Horror, ‘impoverished characters’ and living in and writing about New York.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock

Your Birthday Has Come and Gone

Paul Auster

‘For the first time in all the years you had known her, she sounded deranged.’

In Conversation | Issue 117
In Conversation | Issue 117

Paul Auster | Interview

Paul Auster

Paul Auster discusses his new novel ‘Invisible’, his writing process and the unsettling quality of narrative clarity.

Fiction | Issue 117 padlock
Fiction | Issue 117 padlock

Mr Bones

Paul Auster

‘Mr Bones knew that Willy wasn't long for this world’.

Fiction | Issue 117 padlock
Fiction | Issue 117 padlock

The Brooklyn Follies

Paul Auster

‘I was looking for a quiet place to die.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock

It Don’t Mean a Thing

Paul Auster

‘The single inhabitant of an asteroid that orbits around a tertiary moon of Pluto, visible only through the strongest telescope.’

Fiction | Issue 58 padlock
Fiction | Issue 58 padlock

The Money Chronicles

Paul Auster

‘I went through a period of several years when everything I touched turned to failure.’

Fiction | Issue 46
Fiction | Issue 46

Dizzy

Paul Auster

‘The method’s not important. The only thing that counts is that you go along with it – and that you understand why it has to be done.’

Fiction by Paul Auster.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 44
Essays & Memoir | Issue 44

The Red Notebook

Paul Auster

‘In 1973 I was offered a job as caretaker of a farmhouse in the south of France.’

Memoir by Paul Auster.

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