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.
Paul Auster on Granta.com
Fiction | The Online Edition
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’
Fiction | The Online Edition
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.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
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 | The Online Edition
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 | The Online Edition
Mr Bones
Paul Auster
‘Mr Bones knew that Willy wasn't long for this world’.
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.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Paul Auster | Interview
Paul Auster
Paul Auster discusses his new novel ‘Invisible’, his writing process and the unsettling quality of narrative clarity.
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster
‘I was looking for a quiet place to die.’
Fiction | Issue 58
The Money Chronicles
Paul Auster
‘I went through a period of several years when everything I touched turned to failure.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 58
The Red Notebook
Paul Auster
‘In 1973 I was offered a job as caretaker of a farmhouse in the south of France.’
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.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 117
Your Birthday Has Come and Gone
Paul Auster
‘For the first time in all the years you had known her, she sounded deranged.’