Collected Prose

London, Violette; 1999.

    THE STORY OF MY TYPEWRITER. New York, D.A.P.; 2002.

    NORTHERN LIGHTS. ‘Pages for Kafka’ ( European Judaism , 1974); ‘New York Babel’ ( The New York Review of Books , 1975); ‘The Death of Sir Walter Raleigh’ ( Parenthèse, 1975); ‘Northern Lights’ (Catalogue preface for Jean-Paul Riopelle exhibition, Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1976; Derrière le miroir , no. 218).

    CRITICAL ESSAYS. ‘The Art of Hunger’ ( American Letters and Commentary , 1988); ‘Dada Bones’ ( Mulch , 1975); ‘Truth, Beauty, Silence’ ( The New York Review of Books , 1975); ‘From Cakes to Stones’ ( Commentary , 1975); ‘The Poetry of Exile’ ( Commentary , 1976); ‘Innocence and Memory’ ( The New York Review of Books , 1976); ‘Book of the Dead’ ( The New York Review of Books , 1976); ‘Reznikoff × 2’ ( Parnassus , 1979; in Charles Reznikoff: Man and Poet . Orano, Maine, National Poetry Foundation; 1984); ‘The Bartlebooth Follies’ ( The New York Times Book Review , 1987).

    PREFACES. ‘Jacques Dupin’ ( Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin . New York, Living Hand; 1974); ‘André du Bouchet’ ( The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of André du Bouchet . New York, Living Hand; 1976); ‘Black on White’ (Leaflet distributed at Susan Cauldwell Gallery, New York, for David Reed exhibition, 1975); ‘Twentieth-Century French Poetry’ ( The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry . New York, Random House; 1982); ‘Mallarmé’s Son’ ( A Tomb for Anatole , by Stéphane Mallarmé. San Francisco, North Point Press; 1983); ‘On the High Wire’ ( Traité du funambulisme , by Philippe Petit. Arles [France], Actes Sud; 1997); ‘Translator’s Note’ ( Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians , by Pierre Clastres. New York, Zone Books; 1998. First British publication by Faber & Faber; 1998); ‘The National Story Project’ ( I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project . New York, Henry Holt; 2001. First British publication by Faber & Faber under the title True Tales of American Life ; 2001); ‘A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems’ ( A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems . Minneapolis, Rain Taxi; 2002. New preface for collection originally published in 1972); ‘The Art of Worry’ (Catalogue preface for Art Spiegelman exhibition, Nuage Gallery, Brescia [Italy], 2003); ‘Invisible Joubert’ (for reprint of The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert . New York, New York Review Books; forthcoming 2004. Book originally published by North Point Press, San Francisco; 1983); ‘Hawthorne at Home’ ( Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa . New York, New York Review Books; 2003).

    OCCASIONS. ‘A Prayer for Salman Rushdie’ (Op-ed piece: The New York Times ; June 18, 1993); ‘Appeal to the Governor of Pennsylvania’ (Delivered at a press conference at the PEN American Center, New York, on July 28, 1995. Other participants included Dennis Brutus, Thulani Davis, Cornelius Eady, and William Styron); ‘The Best Substitute for War’ ( The New York Times Magazine ; April 1999. In response to the question: What is the best game of the millennium?); ‘Reflections on a Cardboard Box’ (Written at the request of the New York Coalition for the Homeless—for a brochure that was never published); ‘Random Notes—September 11, 2001—4:00 PM’ (Commissioned by Die Zeit ; published September 13, 2001); ‘Underground’ ( The New York Times Magazine ; October 2001. In response to the question: Describe something about New York you love); ‘NYC = USA’ (Op-ed piece: The New York Times ; September 9, 2002).

About the Author

    Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible , Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy , among many other works. 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 honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ( The Book of Illusions ) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ( The Music of Chance ). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

    He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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