Paul Auster

MOLDY PEACHES ROCKER WRITES BROADWAY MUSICAL

MOLDY PEACHES rocker ADAM GREEN is writing a Broadway musical about a homeless dog. The play is based on Paul Auster’s novella Timbuktu, which is told through the eyes of a dog on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland with his...

Kiss & tell: The twilight world of 'tart-lit'

Four and a half years sounds like a long time to keep a secret – especially a sexual one. Yet last month saw the publication by Orion of the third book under the pseudonym "Belle de Jour". The true name of the former London...

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster [California Literary Review]

The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is recovering from a car accident and sharing a house with his daughter and granddaughter, who are both grieving their own losses. Brill can’t sleep...

Blue in the Face

I love the idea of Blue in the Face: when Wayne Wang and Paul Auster were done making the scripted movie Smoke they discovered that they had done so ahead of schedule and under budget, so they decided to use up the rest of...

Adrian Searle gets a ringside seat as the Royal Academy casts off its stuffy image

First came the sobbing, and the sound of sculptures smashing to the floor. Later there was a lot of Neanderthal gibbering and wailing, and a great deal of domestic violence wreaked upon the furniture. It feels just like home at...

Fear and loathing divide two Americas on eve of vote

Ed Pilkington in Brooklyn, New YorkA collective fever, marked by flu-like symptoms ranging from clammy palms to night sweats and a permanent low-level nausea, seems to have settled over liberal America and it shows no sign of...

Fear and Loathing Divide Two Americas on Eve of Vote

Liberal voters fear repeat of 2000 election disappointment while right-wingers rail against 'socialist takeover' Ed Pilkington in Brooklyn, New York A collective fever, marked by flu-like symptoms ranging from clammy palms to...

01:00 PM: City Arts & Lectures

Paul Auster -- Poet, translator, editor, author, screenwriter and director, Paul Auster has pursued a literary career of uncommon seriousness, abundance and originality. Auster has written 14 novels, five screenplays and...

Estoril Film Festival unveils lineup

Guests include Frears, Varda, Auster LISBON — The Estoril Film Festival, which is run by leading Franco-Portuguese producer Paulo Branco, has announced its final lineup. The 14 European films in competition include titles such...

Hopes for a happy ending: Literary voices on the American Election

Presidents and novelists are storytellers both, but it is a rare day in America when their narratives collide. It nearly happened in 1963, the year Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy hired (at the recommendation of William...

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