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Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York.
“The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video.
To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time.
Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt.
Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014.
Camera by: Anders Urmacher
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
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- published: 16 Dec 2014
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From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
- published: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 9328
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown?
Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York?
And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two?
- published: 15 Dec 2011
- views: 18295
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event took place on August 20, 2008.
- published: 04 Sep 2008
- views: 39765
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
- published: 13 Nov 2009
- views: 59981
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
- published: 24 Apr 2012
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Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich.
- published: 13 Nov 2014
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Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 30266
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
- published: 08 Nov 2013
- views: 2443
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).
Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie and Samuel Auster. He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and was graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood. After graduating from Columbia University in 1970, he moved to Paris, France where he earned a living translating French literature. Since returning to the U.S. in 1974, he has published poems, essays, novels of his own, as well as translations of French writers such as Stéphane Mallarmé and Joseph Joubert.
He and his second wife, writer Siri Hustvedt, were married in 1981, and they live in Brooklyn. Together they have one daughter, Sophie Auster. Previously, Auster was married to the acclaimed writer, Lydia Davis. They have one son together, Daniel Auster.
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17:31Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
Paul Auster - How I Became a WriterPaul Auster - How I Became a Writer
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages. Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood. -
4:14Paul Auster: The Meanness of New York
Paul Auster: The Meanness of New YorkPaul Auster: The Meanness of New York
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York. “The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video. To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time. Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt. Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014. Camera by: Anders Urmacher Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014 Supported by Nordea-fonden -
100:44A Conversation with Paul Auster
A Conversation with Paul AusterA Conversation with Paul Auster
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281 -
23:15BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul AusterBBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster. How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown? Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York? And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two? -
51:02Paul Auster | Talks at Google
Paul Auster | Talks at GooglePaul Auster | Talks at Google
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark". About the Author: Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. This event took place on August 20, 2008. -
3:27Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the NovelPaul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
http://bigthink.com Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees. -
3:02Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the EgoPaul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing. Question: How can someone read like a good writer? Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones. Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into? Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that. And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary. So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way. Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen Question: How can someone read like a good writer? Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones. Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into? Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that. And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary. So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way. Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen -
30:35Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzyPaul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich. -
48:22Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul AusterSiri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster. -
11:19Paul Auster, NY 2013
Paul Auster, NY 2013Paul Auster, NY 2013
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . . Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
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'Paul Auster' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
The Actress (2012)
Actors: Sadie Frost (actress), Sally Phillips (actress), Perry Benson (actor), Michael Sani (actor), Zara Martin (actress), Ben Charles Edwards (producer), Ben Charles Edwards (director), Tom Bacon (actor), Fabrizio Santino (actor), Carl Prekopp (actor), Kaylee Cooper (actress), Gerard Mcdermott (actor), Morgana Robinson (actress), Paul Honey (composer), Irwin Sparkes (actor),
Plot: It is the twilight of a grand old movie star's life. Poor health and old age have robbed her of her glamour, her career and now - probably within hours - her life. The end is near. She arrives, surrounded by her parasitic entourage, at a cinema for a private showing of her greatest screen moments. Kicking the hangers-on out, she sits alone in the dark as the light of the projector illuminates the silver screen and her previous youth and beauty. In a daring escape from the inevitable, she enters the screen and is suddenly back in her movies - a star once more. She tumbles from genre to genre in scenes taking in the silent era, film noir, '70s sci-fi sexploitation and '90s sitcom land. It is a desperate attempt to outsmart and outrun the apparition of death itself, which pursues her through the scenes. Inevitable or not - this old movie diva isn't going without a fight. This is the story of a shooting star who refuses to fade away or go gently into that good night.
Genres: Drama, Short,Taglines: In the role of a lifetime
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Famous quotes by Paul Auster:
"In the mid-70s I wrote some plays, also, but it wasn't until the very late '70s when I ran into a real crisis on every level, personal, artistic, and I was absolutely broke, I'd run out of money and... hope, I guess, and I stopped writing altogether for awhile."
"I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious."
"The funny thing is, as a young person I was trying to write prose, and I wrote a lot of it, but I was never satisfied with the results. Two of the novels I wound up finishing and publishing later I started very early on, in my early 20's, In The Country Of Last Things and Moon Palace. Both of those books I worked a great deal on but never quite got a grip on either one."
"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
"You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one."
"I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went."
"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table."
"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."
"And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is."
"We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread."
"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."
"I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films."
"You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either."
"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
"I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book."
"Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever."
"There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round."
"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."
Paul Auster
ALBUMS
- We Must Be Losing It released: 2005
- Les Inrockuptibles présentent : Une rentrée 2004, Volume 1 released: 2004
- Lulu on the Bridge released: 1998
- Stadt aus Glas released: 1997
- Schlagschatten released:
- Reisen im Skriptorium released:
We Must Be Losing It
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Les Inrockuptibles présentent : Une rentrée 2004, Volume 1
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Lulu on the Bridge
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Schlagschatten
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Reisen im Skriptorium
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Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages. Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood. -
Paul Auster: The Meanness of New York
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York. “The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video. To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time. Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed Ameri... -
A Conversation with Paul Auster
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281 -
BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster. How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown? Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York? And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two? -
Paul Auster | Talks at Google
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark". About the Author: Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Litera... -
Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
http://bigthink.com Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees. -
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing. Question: How can someone read like a good writer? Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaub... -
Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich. -
Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster. -
Paul Auster, NY 2013
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . . Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
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Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search fo...
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
wn.com/Paul Auster How I Became A Writer
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
- published: 09 Apr 2016
- views: 222
Paul Auster: The Meanness of New York
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- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 16 Dec 2014
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The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved N...
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York.
“The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video.
To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time.
Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt.
Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014.
Camera by: Anders Urmacher
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden
wn.com/Paul Auster The Meanness Of New York
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York.
“The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video.
To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time.
Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt.
Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014.
Camera by: Anders Urmacher
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 16 Dec 2014
- views: 9904
A Conversation with Paul Auster
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- Duration: 100:44
- Updated: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 9328
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
wn.com/A Conversation With Paul Auster
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
- published: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 9328
BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
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- Duration: 23:15
- Updated: 15 Dec 2011
- views: 18295
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the worl...
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown?
Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York?
And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two?
wn.com/BBC News Hardtalk 10 22 2008 Paul Auster
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown?
Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York?
And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two?
- published: 15 Dec 2011
- views: 18295
Paul Auster | Talks at Google
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- Duration: 51:02
- Updated: 04 Sep 2008
- views: 39765
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the...
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event took place on August 20, 2008.
wn.com/Paul Auster | Talks At Google
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event took place on August 20, 2008.
- published: 04 Sep 2008
- views: 39765
Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 13 Nov 2009
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http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
wn.com/Paul Auster Why Roth Is Wrong About The Novel
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
- published: 13 Nov 2009
- views: 59981
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
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- Duration: 3:02
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
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The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
P...
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
wn.com/Paul Auster To Young Writers Lose The Ego
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
- published: 24 Apr 2012
- views: 35437
Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
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- Duration: 30:35
- Updated: 13 Nov 2014
- views: 2813
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki U...
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich.
wn.com/Paul Auster Writers In Motion Audiowizualna Biblioteka Pisarzy
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich.
- published: 13 Nov 2014
- views: 2813
Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
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- Duration: 48:22
- Updated: 18 Jun 2012
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Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more...
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster.
wn.com/Siri Hustvedt In Conversation With Paul Auster
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 30266
Paul Auster, NY 2013
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- Duration: 11:19
- Updated: 08 Nov 2013
- views: 2443
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
...
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
wn.com/Paul Auster, NY 2013
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
- published: 08 Nov 2013
- views: 2443
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Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages. Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood. -
Paul Auster: The Meanness of New York
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York. “The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video. To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time. Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed Ameri... -
A Conversation with Paul Auster
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281 -
BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster. How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown? Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York? And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two? -
Paul Auster | Talks at Google
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark". About the Author: Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Litera... -
Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
http://bigthink.com Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees. -
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing. Question: How can someone read like a good writer? Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaub... -
Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich. -
Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster. -
Paul Auster, NY 2013
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . . Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
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- Duration: 17:31
- Updated: 09 Apr 2016
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Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search fo...
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
wn.com/Paul Auster How I Became A Writer
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
- published: 09 Apr 2016
- views: 222
Paul Auster: The Meanness of New York
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- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 16 Dec 2014
- views: 9904
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved N...
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York.
“The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video.
To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time.
Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt.
Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014.
Camera by: Anders Urmacher
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden
wn.com/Paul Auster The Meanness Of New York
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York.
“The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video.
To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time.
Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt.
Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014.
Camera by: Anders Urmacher
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 16 Dec 2014
- views: 9904
A Conversation with Paul Auster
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- Duration: 100:44
- Updated: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 9328
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
wn.com/A Conversation With Paul Auster
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
- published: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 9328
BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
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- Duration: 23:15
- Updated: 15 Dec 2011
- views: 18295
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the worl...
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown?
Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York?
And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two?
wn.com/BBC News Hardtalk 10 22 2008 Paul Auster
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown?
Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York?
And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two?
- published: 15 Dec 2011
- views: 18295
Paul Auster | Talks at Google
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- Duration: 51:02
- Updated: 04 Sep 2008
- views: 39765
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the...
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event took place on August 20, 2008.
wn.com/Paul Auster | Talks At Google
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event took place on August 20, 2008.
- published: 04 Sep 2008
- views: 39765
Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 13 Nov 2009
- views: 59981
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
wn.com/Paul Auster Why Roth Is Wrong About The Novel
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
- published: 13 Nov 2009
- views: 59981
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
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- Duration: 3:02
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
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The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
P...
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
wn.com/Paul Auster To Young Writers Lose The Ego
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
- published: 24 Apr 2012
- views: 35437
Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
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- Duration: 30:35
- Updated: 13 Nov 2014
- views: 2813
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki U...
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich.
wn.com/Paul Auster Writers In Motion Audiowizualna Biblioteka Pisarzy
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich.
- published: 13 Nov 2014
- views: 2813
Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
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- Duration: 48:22
- Updated: 18 Jun 2012
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Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more...
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster.
wn.com/Siri Hustvedt In Conversation With Paul Auster
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 30266
Paul Auster, NY 2013
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- Duration: 11:19
- Updated: 08 Nov 2013
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"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
...
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
wn.com/Paul Auster, NY 2013
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
- published: 08 Nov 2013
- views: 2443
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Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages. Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood. -
Paul Auster: The Meanness of New York
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York. “The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video. To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time. Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed Ameri... -
A Conversation with Paul Auster
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281 -
BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster. How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown? Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York? And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two? -
Paul Auster | Talks at Google
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark". About the Author: Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Litera... -
Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
http://bigthink.com Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees. -
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing. Question: How can someone read like a good writer? Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaub... -
Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich. -
Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster. -
Paul Auster, NY 2013
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . . Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
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- Duration: 17:31
- Updated: 09 Apr 2016
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Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search fo...
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
wn.com/Paul Auster How I Became A Writer
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster.[citation needed] He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
- published: 09 Apr 2016
- views: 222
Paul Auster: The Meanness of New York
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- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 16 Dec 2014
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The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved N...
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York.
“The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video.
To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time.
Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt.
Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014.
Camera by: Anders Urmacher
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden
wn.com/Paul Auster The Meanness Of New York
The iconic New York novelist, Paul Auster, comments on the much debated Eric Garner case, and why he doesn’t want to give his usual pep talk about his beloved New York.
“The meanness of New York has come out again”, Auster states, referring to the tragic death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17, 2014 after being choked to death by a policeman in Staten Island, New York. Since then, protests and national discussions have broken out when the grand jury didn’t come forward with an indictment against the policeman even though the incident was caught on video.
To have America live through the incident in Ferguson just recently, and now the case of Eric Garner in New York has led to the biggest racial discussion in America for a long time.
Paul Auster (born 1947) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. He has published numerous novels such as the famous ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987), ‘Moon Palace’ (1989), ‘Sunset Park’ (2010) and the autobiographical books ‘Winter Journal’ (2012) and ‘Report From the Interior’ (2013). He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, novelist Siri Hustvedt.
Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in Brooklyn, New York, December 2014.
Camera by: Anders Urmacher
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 16 Dec 2014
- views: 9904
A Conversation with Paul Auster
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- Duration: 100:44
- Updated: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 9328
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
wn.com/A Conversation With Paul Auster
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/winter-journal-paul-auster-conversation-paul-holdengr%C3%A4ber?nref=90281
- published: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 9328
BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
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- Duration: 23:15
- Updated: 15 Dec 2011
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In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the worl...
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown?
Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York?
And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two?
wn.com/BBC News Hardtalk 10 22 2008 Paul Auster
In a HARDtalk program broadcast on 23rd October 2008, Zeinab Badawi talks to New Yorker, Paul Auster.
How are New Yorkers coping being at the center of the world's financial meltdown?
Where does he put the credit crunch on the scale of disasters that have hit New York?
And are the presidential elections causing a culture split in the US which could tear the country in two?
- published: 15 Dec 2011
- views: 18295
Paul Auster | Talks at Google
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- Duration: 51:02
- Updated: 04 Sep 2008
- views: 39765
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the...
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event took place on August 20, 2008.
wn.com/Paul Auster | Talks At Google
The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark".
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event took place on August 20, 2008.
- published: 04 Sep 2008
- views: 39765
Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 13 Nov 2009
- views: 59981
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
wn.com/Paul Auster Why Roth Is Wrong About The Novel
http://bigthink.com
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
- published: 13 Nov 2009
- views: 59981
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
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- Duration: 3:02
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
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The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
P...
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
wn.com/Paul Auster To Young Writers Lose The Ego
The novelist believes that it's "the burning need to do it," not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: How can someone read like a good writer?
Paul Auster: Well, again, we get into very murky territory here because it's all a matter of taste. I mean, I have the writers that I care about most, the writers that I think are the greatest of the past and of the present. But my list would be very different, perhaps, from yours. But I guess the important thing for young writers is to read, read the good ones. And I suppose by that, I mean, the ones who've withstood the test of time. You know, the great ones. Hawthorne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens, that's where you're going to get the most, I think. And when you see how, you know, brilliantly they do things, Flaubert, you know, all the names that we know. But they're there for a reason, because they really are the best writers. And I think you have to learn from the great ones.
Question: What's the most common trap beginning writers fall into?
Paul Auster: Common trap, I suppose a kind of an egotism, self-importance, inability to look out of themselves, and I think it's important to look very closely at the world, everything happening around you, and sometimes for young people it's difficult to do that.
And the other thing is to, to get too attached to some of the things that you think are clever that you're doing. I think cleverness has its spots, its place in the world, perhaps, but the burning need to do it is what makes for good work. The wish to do it doesn't really help you. It's when it's absolutely necessary.
So when I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don't do it. Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody. The world doesn't owe you anything and no one is asking you to do it. And I suppose it's this feeling of accomplishment that young people feel sometimes is that, "Well, of course my book should be published! Of course I should be able to earn a living out of this." Well, it just doesn't work that way.
Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
- published: 24 Apr 2012
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Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
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Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki U...
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich.
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Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany przez Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe we współpracy z Wydziałem Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Dzięki wywiadom przed kamerą powstają audiowizualne sylwetki pisarzy polskich i zagranicznych, zarówno tych mieszkających w Krakowie, jak i tych, którzy odwiedzają miasto podczas licznych wydarzeń literackich.
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Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
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- Updated: 18 Jun 2012
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Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more...
Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster.
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Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and more recently, The Summer Without Men. This evening, she will discuss her new book of provocative essays entitled, Living, Thinking, Looking, which covers a wide range of topics from an investigation into a neurological disorder to discussions on artists at the Prado and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist and translator Paul Auster.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
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Paul Auster, NY 2013
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"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
...
"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
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"Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone's story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. " Amazon
- published: 08 Nov 2013
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Paul Auster on Smoke
Writer Paul Auster, best known for his novels, discusses his cinematic work after a special screening of Smoke (1995), which he wrote and co-directed with Wayne Wang. Auster details his relationship with film, his love of collaboration and the influence of Robert Altman and Yasujiro Ozu. For more BFI event videos visit: http://www.bfi.org.uk -
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Paul Auster - Sunset Park
Writer Paul Auster reads from his book, "Sunset Park," presented by Harvard Book Store. "Sunset Park" follows the hopes and fears of a cast of characters brought together during the aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse. More lectures at http://forum-network.org This talk took place November 9, 2010. -
Conversation Between Paul Auster and Regina Hamsun
Author Paul Auster sits down at the Oslo Cinematheque for a conversation with Knut Hamsun's granddaughter Regina about Henning Carlsen's film Hunger (1966).
Paul Auster on Smoke
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Writer Paul Auster, best known for his novels, discusses his cinematic work after a special screening of Smoke (1995), which he wrote and co-directed with Wayne...
Writer Paul Auster, best known for his novels, discusses his cinematic work after a special screening of Smoke (1995), which he wrote and co-directed with Wayne Wang.
Auster details his relationship with film, his love of collaboration and the influence of Robert Altman and Yasujiro Ozu.
For more BFI event videos visit: http://www.bfi.org.uk
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Writer Paul Auster, best known for his novels, discusses his cinematic work after a special screening of Smoke (1995), which he wrote and co-directed with Wayne Wang.
Auster details his relationship with film, his love of collaboration and the influence of Robert Altman and Yasujiro Ozu.
For more BFI event videos visit: http://www.bfi.org.uk
- published: 23 Jan 2013
- views: 4783
PERFILES . ENTREVISTA CON PAUL AUSTER
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- published: 03 Apr 2014
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Paul Auster fue entrevistado por Carlos Ruta, rector de UNSAM
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Invitado por la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, el escritor llegó a la Argentina e hizo su primera aparición pública en una charla en la que habló sobre su ...
Invitado por la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, el escritor llegó a la Argentina e hizo su primera aparición pública en una charla en la que habló sobre su obra, su vida y su oficio frente a centenares de seguidores que colmaron una sala del MALBA y lo escucharon desde el hall a través de una pantalla.
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Invitado por la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, el escritor llegó a la Argentina e hizo su primera aparición pública en una charla en la que habló sobre su obra, su vida y su oficio frente a centenares de seguidores que colmaron una sala del MALBA y lo escucharon desde el hall a través de una pantalla.
- published: 01 Sep 2014
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Paul Auster - Sunset Park
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Writer Paul Auster reads from his book, "Sunset Park," presented by Harvard Book Store. "Sunset Park" follows the hopes and fears of a cast of characters brough...
Writer Paul Auster reads from his book, "Sunset Park," presented by Harvard Book Store. "Sunset Park" follows the hopes and fears of a cast of characters brought together during the aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse. More lectures at http://forum-network.org
This talk took place November 9, 2010.
wn.com/Paul Auster Sunset Park
Writer Paul Auster reads from his book, "Sunset Park," presented by Harvard Book Store. "Sunset Park" follows the hopes and fears of a cast of characters brought together during the aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse. More lectures at http://forum-network.org
This talk took place November 9, 2010.
- published: 05 Sep 2012
- views: 3421
Conversation Between Paul Auster and Regina Hamsun
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- Duration: 26:34
- Updated: 30 Dec 2013
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Author Paul Auster sits down at the Oslo Cinematheque for a conversation with Knut Hamsun's granddaughter Regina about Henning Carlsen's film Hunger (1966).
Author Paul Auster sits down at the Oslo Cinematheque for a conversation with Knut Hamsun's granddaughter Regina about Henning Carlsen's film Hunger (1966).
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Author Paul Auster sits down at the Oslo Cinematheque for a conversation with Knut Hamsun's granddaughter Regina about Henning Carlsen's film Hunger (1966).
- published: 30 Dec 2013
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Granta Paul Auster Interview
Grantas new issue, Granta 106: Fiction Special, includes Invisible, an extract from Paul Austers forthcoming novel of the same name. Auster is an internationally acclaimed author of more than twenty books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He is also a frequent Granta contributor Invisible marks the eighth appearance of his work in the magazine. In this exclusive Granta interview, he talks about the emotional intimacy and intertextual exercises of his fiction, the intensity of youth, the unsettling quality of narrative clarity and his writing process. -
BAMcinématek Interview with Paul Auster
Paul Auster expounds on his love of cinema, Dutch cigars, Brooklyn, and La Bagel Delight in an interview in his Park Slope home. He will appear at BAM for a Q&A; following a screening of Smoke on Monday, December 19, 2011 at 6:50pm. http://BAM.org/BrooklynCloseUp -
Interview de Paul Auster par Bernard Pivot à propos de son livre
11 mai 1990 Interview de PAUL AUSTER par BERNARD PIVOT à propos de son livre "Moon Palace"PAUL AUSTER parle de son héros Marco Stanley Fog, de la solitude, des cow-boys et du western. Il évoque ses traductions de Jean Paul SARTRE, Maurice BLANCHOT, Stéphane MALLARME et de son ami le funambule Philippe PETIT. Images d'archive INA Institut National de l'Audiovisuel http://www.ina.fr Abonnez-vous http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Inaculture -
What Keeps Paul Auster Up At Night?
The author shares one of the "ranting inner monologues" that make him toss and turn. Question: What keeps you up at night? Paul Auster: What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that. But I know you're talking metaphorically. What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first. And then these blistering ranting inner monologues one has about the state of the world, mostly about politics, mostly about the, you know, the stupidity of our culture and how easily things could be fixed and nobody does anything about an... -
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Granta Paul Auster Interview
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Grantas new issue, Granta 106: Fiction Special, includes Invisible, an extract from Paul Austers forthcoming novel of the same name. Auster is an internationall...
Grantas new issue, Granta 106: Fiction Special, includes Invisible, an extract from Paul Austers forthcoming novel of the same name. Auster is an internationally acclaimed author of more than twenty books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He is also a frequent Granta contributor Invisible marks the eighth appearance of his work in the magazine. In this exclusive Granta interview, he talks about the emotional intimacy and intertextual exercises of his fiction, the intensity of youth, the unsettling quality of narrative clarity and his writing process.
wn.com/Granta Paul Auster Interview
Grantas new issue, Granta 106: Fiction Special, includes Invisible, an extract from Paul Austers forthcoming novel of the same name. Auster is an internationally acclaimed author of more than twenty books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He is also a frequent Granta contributor Invisible marks the eighth appearance of his work in the magazine. In this exclusive Granta interview, he talks about the emotional intimacy and intertextual exercises of his fiction, the intensity of youth, the unsettling quality of narrative clarity and his writing process.
- published: 20 May 2009
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BAMcinématek Interview with Paul Auster
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- Duration: 8:29
- Updated: 16 Dec 2011
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Paul Auster expounds on his love of cinema, Dutch cigars, Brooklyn, and La Bagel Delight in an interview in his Park Slope home.
He will appear at BAM for a Q&...
Paul Auster expounds on his love of cinema, Dutch cigars, Brooklyn, and La Bagel Delight in an interview in his Park Slope home.
He will appear at BAM for a Q&A; following a screening of Smoke on Monday, December 19, 2011 at 6:50pm.
http://BAM.org/BrooklynCloseUp
wn.com/Bamcinématek Interview With Paul Auster
Paul Auster expounds on his love of cinema, Dutch cigars, Brooklyn, and La Bagel Delight in an interview in his Park Slope home.
He will appear at BAM for a Q&A; following a screening of Smoke on Monday, December 19, 2011 at 6:50pm.
http://BAM.org/BrooklynCloseUp
- published: 16 Dec 2011
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Interview de Paul Auster par Bernard Pivot à propos de son livre
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- Duration: 11:10
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
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11 mai 1990
Interview de PAUL AUSTER par BERNARD PIVOT à propos de son livre "Moon Palace"PAUL AUSTER parle de son héros Marco Stanley Fog, de la solitude, des ...
11 mai 1990
Interview de PAUL AUSTER par BERNARD PIVOT à propos de son livre "Moon Palace"PAUL AUSTER parle de son héros Marco Stanley Fog, de la solitude, des cow-boys et du western. Il évoque ses traductions de Jean Paul SARTRE, Maurice BLANCHOT, Stéphane MALLARME et de son ami le funambule Philippe PETIT. Images d'archive INA
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11 mai 1990
Interview de PAUL AUSTER par BERNARD PIVOT à propos de son livre "Moon Palace"PAUL AUSTER parle de son héros Marco Stanley Fog, de la solitude, des cow-boys et du western. Il évoque ses traductions de Jean Paul SARTRE, Maurice BLANCHOT, Stéphane MALLARME et de son ami le funambule Philippe PETIT. Images d'archive INA
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What Keeps Paul Auster Up At Night?
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The author shares one of the "ranting inner monologues" that make him toss and turn.
Question: What keeps you up at night?
Paul Auster: What keeps me up at ni...
The author shares one of the "ranting inner monologues" that make him toss and turn.
Question: What keeps you up at night?
Paul Auster: What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that. But I know you're talking metaphorically. What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
And then these blistering ranting inner monologues one has about the state of the world, mostly about politics, mostly about the, you know, the stupidity of our culture and how easily things could be fixed and nobody does anything about anything. So those things keep me up.
Question: What is one of your typical rants?
Paul Auster: Well, I mean, okay, something that has just been, you know, in everyone's face now for the last month, healthcare in the United States. It seems to me so irrational that we haven't been able to figure this out, for 60 years there have been plans proposed and the idea that healthcare should be a profit-making business makes no sense to me. Once we abandon that idea and just say that healthcare is a right for every human being, I think we could develop a system that would be equitable. I mean to say, we have public libraries, public parks, public schools, these are not making profit, they're there to serve people. And I think health is a similar kind of issue.
But living in this capitalist society, where, you know, money trumps everything every time, there are huge numbers of people just won't accept this, so it drives me nuts. I just feel it's irrational, that's all.Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: What keeps you up at night?
Paul Auster: What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that. But I know you're talking metaphorically. What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
And then these blistering ranting inner monologues one has about the state of the world, mostly about politics, mostly about the, you know, the stupidity of our culture and how easily things could be fixed and nobody does anything about anything. So those things keep me up.
Question: What is one of your typical rants?
Paul Auster: Well, I mean, okay, something that has just been, you know, in everyone's face now for the last month, healthcare in the United States. It seems to me so irrational that we haven't been able to figure this out, for 60 years there have been plans proposed and the idea that healthcare should be a profit-making business makes no sense to me. Once we abandon that idea and just say that healthcare is a right for every human being, I think we could develop a system that would be equitable. I mean to say, we have public libraries, public parks, public schools, these are not making profit, they're there to serve people. And I think health is a similar kind of issue.
But living in this capitalist society, where, you know, money trumps everything every time, there are huge numbers of people just won't accept this, so it drives me nuts. I just feel it's irrational, that's all.Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
wn.com/What Keeps Paul Auster Up At Night
The author shares one of the "ranting inner monologues" that make him toss and turn.
Question: What keeps you up at night?
Paul Auster: What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that. But I know you're talking metaphorically. What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
And then these blistering ranting inner monologues one has about the state of the world, mostly about politics, mostly about the, you know, the stupidity of our culture and how easily things could be fixed and nobody does anything about anything. So those things keep me up.
Question: What is one of your typical rants?
Paul Auster: Well, I mean, okay, something that has just been, you know, in everyone's face now for the last month, healthcare in the United States. It seems to me so irrational that we haven't been able to figure this out, for 60 years there have been plans proposed and the idea that healthcare should be a profit-making business makes no sense to me. Once we abandon that idea and just say that healthcare is a right for every human being, I think we could develop a system that would be equitable. I mean to say, we have public libraries, public parks, public schools, these are not making profit, they're there to serve people. And I think health is a similar kind of issue.
But living in this capitalist society, where, you know, money trumps everything every time, there are huge numbers of people just won't accept this, so it drives me nuts. I just feel it's irrational, that's all.Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
Question: What keeps you up at night?
Paul Auster: What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that. But I know you're talking metaphorically. What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
And then these blistering ranting inner monologues one has about the state of the world, mostly about politics, mostly about the, you know, the stupidity of our culture and how easily things could be fixed and nobody does anything about anything. So those things keep me up.
Question: What is one of your typical rants?
Paul Auster: Well, I mean, okay, something that has just been, you know, in everyone's face now for the last month, healthcare in the United States. It seems to me so irrational that we haven't been able to figure this out, for 60 years there have been plans proposed and the idea that healthcare should be a profit-making business makes no sense to me. Once we abandon that idea and just say that healthcare is a right for every human being, I think we could develop a system that would be equitable. I mean to say, we have public libraries, public parks, public schools, these are not making profit, they're there to serve people. And I think health is a similar kind of issue.
But living in this capitalist society, where, you know, money trumps everything every time, there are huge numbers of people just won't accept this, so it drives me nuts. I just feel it's irrational, that's all.Recorded on November 5, 2009Interviewed by Austin Allen
- published: 23 Apr 2012
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Paul Auster - Interview con subtitulos
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Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
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BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
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Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
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Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
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Paul Auster - Writers in Motion - Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy
Audiowizualna biblioteka pisarzy Writers in Motion to długofalowy projekt realizowany prze...
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Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
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Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
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Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster
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Paul Auster - How I Became a Writer
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BBC NEWS HARDtalk 10-22-2008: Paul Auster
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Paul Auster fue entrevistado por Carlos Ruta, rector de UNSAM
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Conversation Between Paul Auster and Regina Hamsun
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NASA Curiosity rover discovers unexpected mineral on Mars
Edit Deccan Chronicle 26 Jun 2016
NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample on Mars, a finding that suggests the red planet hosted explosive volcanoes during its evolution. The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been exploring sedimentary rocks within Gale Crater since landing in August 2012 ... ‘On Earth, tridymite is formed at high temperatures in an explosive process called silicic volcanism ... ....
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Kenyan, 94, testifies about killings by British soldiers
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Court in central London hears witness recall being beaten and seeing companions shot dead during Mau Mau insurgency. @owenbowcott. Nelson Njao Munyaka witnessed two companions being shot dead by British soldiers; he carried their corpses to a white settler’s farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Both victims had taken the Mau Mau oath and been trying to escape ... Related. UK to compensate Kenya's Mau Mau torture victims ... Twitter ... ....
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Can wounds ever heal in divided UK?
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(CNN)The referendum vote to quit the European Union has left the United Kingdom a more divided society than ever before. In fifty years reporting politics I have never encountered such shock and anger. the morning the result was announced my phone was red hot, mostly with younger friends convinced the older generation had, through indulging their prejudices, sold them down the river ... It's Brexit ... by Donald Trump. Read More ... future ... ....
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Iraqi commander: Fallujah 'fully liberated' from IS
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BAGHDAD — A senior Iraqi commander declared that the city of Fallujah was "fully liberated" from Islamic State group militants on Sunday, after a more than monthlong military operation. Iraqi troops have entered the northwestern al-Julan neighborhood, the last area of Fallujah to remain under IS control, the head of the counterterrorism forces in the operation, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, told The Associated Press ... figures ... ___ ... ....
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Yemen clashes intensify as Ban Ki-moon pushes peace in Kuwait
Edit The National 26 Jun 2016
Aden // Fighting between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels killed 41 people on several fronts on Sunday, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged the rival factions to accept a peace plan. UN sponsored talks between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognised government of President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi have failed to achieve a breakthrough since starting in Kuwait on April 21 ... *Agence France-Presse ....
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Annie Proulx is retiring, but for how long?
Edit The Guardian 17 Jun 2016
Proulx claims she has written her last novel, but as writers from Alice Munro to Stephen King have shown, quitting is easier said than done ... I hate it. Really, really hate it.”. Related ... Such has been the spate of resignation news that the website Media Mass this week ran a spoof report on Paul Auster hanging up his pen (“‘Being an author just isn’t fun any more,’ he might have said, says a source who remains anonymous”) ... ....
Peter Carey receives 'highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the US'
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 15 Jun 2016
AUSTRALIANS IN THE US ACADEMY ... British writer Julian Barnes is one of two new honorary foreign members ... He said he had conflicting emotions because a member had to die to make a seat available ... Other writers in the academy include Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, Rita Dove, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Janet Malcolm, Lorrie Moore, Tony Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilyn Robinson ... Advertisement ... ....
Total unrecall: In search of lost memory
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 27 Feb 2016
Lining my shelves are entire books I've read but cannot recall. Whole volumes lost somewhere down the sink holes in my mind. Novels by Tim Winton, Evelyn Waugh, Philip K. Dick – and anything, it seems, by Paul Auster. There's a blank page in my head for about half the titles I've read. I take such care with books that I used to store them in Tupperware. But I'm buggered if I could tell you what's in them ... Advertisement ... ....
‘City of Glass,’ Down a Rabbit Hole of Meta-Noir
Edit New York Times 26 Feb 2016
Untitled Theater Company No. 61 presents an adaptation of the first novel in Paul Auster’s enigmatic “New York Trilogy.” ... ....
11 Binge-Worthy Literary Series
Edit Huffington Post 29 Jan 2016
By Emma Volk . Off the Shelf ... . My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante ... ... ... The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. Paul Auster turns the mystery genre on its head in this highly original series of novellas ... The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott. In luminous, unsparing prose, Paul Scott records the doomed love affair of a young English woman and a British-educated Indian boy in the waning years of British colonial rule in India ... ....
Sarnath Banerjee
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Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee. Sarnath Banerjee admits that Once Upon a Time in Vikaspuri, his fourth graphic novel, is somewhat like a Salim-Javed film from the 1970s ... Ilaka goes up against ilaka, bhai against bhai ... Excerpts.. It’s been a while since you’ve been living in Berlin ... I think that comes from reading fiction — I learned about Edinburgh through the eyes of Detective Inspector John Rebus, and New York through Paul Auster ... ....
Your book-sharing stories: from a grandma’s precious gift to an online date gone wrong
Edit The Guardian 12 Jan 2016
Here are the titles our readers love to share at any opportunity – plus their best anecdotes around the act of giving and receiving books. What’s your favourite book to share? Let us know in the comments, or upload a picture on GuardianWitness ... ‘Find it, buy it, read it’ – advice after 40 years selling books ... Twitter ... I’ve always been a keen reader, but when I read Paul Auster’s Moon Palace it affected me more than any ‘first reading’ ... ....
Carey Lander remembered by Tracyanne Campbell
Edit The Guardian 27 Dec 2015
1 March 1982 - 11 October 2015. Camera Obscura’s singer recalls the bravery, selflessness and humour of her bandmate and friend, who died of osteosarcoma this year at the age of 33. • Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2015 in full here ... All the best things. More than anything, she loved books – Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath and Patrick Hamilton, Paul Auster – and also 50s and 60s vintage style, winter clothes, red roses, falling snow ... ....
Listen to This: how Tanis podcast keeps mystery alive in internet age
Edit The Guardian 19 Dec 2015
Nic Silver, Terry Miles and Paul Bae litter show with historically accurate references to add a level of truth to deep fiction that makes show wildly addictive ... “You Google it and know absolutely everything there is to know – whether it’s where Paul Auster is from or the name of the fourth Jaws movie....
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus review - brings feminism to the fantasy of unrequited love
Edit The Observer 22 Nov 2015
I Love Dick has the status of a cult novel among young feminists and fashionistas. Lena Dunham is a fan. Sheila Heti says reading it tore down assumptions “of what the form can handle” ... And now we get a UK edition ... Chris is convinced Dick is flirting with her ... But gradually Chris begins to see how the letters could be turned into an art project (fellow art-stalkers Sophie Calle and Paul Auster are also namechecked in the book)....
To keep books in good company
Edit Deccan Herald 21 Nov 2015
Among numerous treasures in the catalogue is a limited, signed edition of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy; a near-flawless copy of Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice; a signed copy of Raymond Carver’s scarce first book of poems, Near Klamath; the nicest possible signed copy of Catch 22; On the Road in a perfect dust jacket; ......
‘Nationalist and religious extremists are the beneficiaries of cultural boycotts’
Edit The Guardian 06 Nov 2015
In 2012 Paul Auster gave an interview to the newspaper Hürriyet in which he said he would not come to Turkey “because of imprisoned journalists and writers”. These words caused deep disappointment in a country where Auster is widely read and loved ... Auster responded by saying that there were no journalists or writers in prison in Israel ... Auster’s boycott harmed the wrong people ... Paul Auster hits back at Turkish PM....
How DeLillo Nailed Us in ‘White Noise’
Edit The Daily Beast 05 Nov 2015
A critical hit when it was published, this novel of a toxic America full of people poisoned by reality has achieved the status of unquestioned literary classic. Shop ▾. For all the discussion of artificial hearts, advanced plastics, and high-voltage power lines, DeLillo is really concerned with more primitive terrors, particularly the fear of death ... “Pretend?” ... City of Glass by Paul Auster ... 1982—The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux ... ....
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