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Words: Irrational (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
For all interested in Geotagging of image files, here is a hands-on review of one of the newest geotaggers available, the ATP Photofinder Mini. Related posts: GeoTagging - Is it worth it? Still on Geotagging “The Invention of Solitude”, Paul Auster - Book Review “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, Sam Harris - Book Review Understanding Composition, Steve Mulligan - Book...
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Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Buys Nothing this week. I'm saving up for Bender's Game. "Accomplishments" Books: The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster. This short novel about a young woman trying to survive in a postapocalyptic city is infinitely allegorical and though the subject matter is depressing, it keeps the reader's mind alive with images, parallels and analysis. The City is a timeless parade of misery that seems to...
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piran café (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Discussing his latest novel, Man in the Dark, Paul Auster tells The Guardian about the root of his frustrations in recent years. If there is something getting Auster’s goat, it’s American politics. It was his disgust at the outcome of the 2000 US elections that sparked the story-within-a-story at the heart of Man in the Dark, [...]
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Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
In Paul Auster's novel Man in the Dark, a fictional character is charged with the unusual assignment of assassinating his own author. Giordano Bruno proposed the existence of alternative universes back in the sixteenth century... and he was burnt at the stake. Philip K. Dick did the same thing four hundred years later, and he received only a slightly warmer (or perhaps “cooler” is the better word)...
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Out of the Woods Now (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Paul Auster's Leviathan was published in 1992 and dedicated to Don DeLillo. Its events seem to eerily prefigure Falling Man ... I'll be attending a lecture on this latter work today and it will be interesting to see if the subject comes up.
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reeling and writhing (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
From the 28th issue of Cordite comes this interview of George Dunford's (he of Hackpacker) with Paul Auster. I particularly like Auster's remarks on the dialectic of composition - "I want to get back in that red car" he apparently...
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Tripping Toward Lucidity (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Even though I finished it yesterday, it's taken me until today to formulate some semi-coherent thoughts on Paul Auster's newest novel, Man in the Dark . I guess I'm cheating since I finished it yesterday, but it makes for good Sunday fodder anyway. Incidentally, today has been bookless . Unless you count the reading I did for ' brary school this morning. It was largely about the digital evolution of...
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About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Paul Auster's newest book, Man in the Dark, creates an alternate universe in which the twin towers never toppled, the war in Iraq never began, and instead the United States...
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Tripping Toward Lucidity (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
You all know I loves me some Paul Auster. However, I am incredibly out of the loop lately, so I had no idea until recently that he has a new novel out. You guessed it, Man in the Dark . Check out this short NPR review from author Alan Cheuse. Incidentally, you may remember that I favorably reviewed his two-novella collection, The Fires , recently so I choose to trust Cheuse when he says this new offering...
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New Books from Seven Stories Press (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
"Take note. A superb new writer lives among us."-Paul Auster
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Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
[Photo of Paul Auster, left, by André Meunier; photo of Junot Diaz, right, by WBUR Boston.] Normally I like to confine my recommendations to wallet-friendly events, but next week there are two events close together at the Herbst Theater that I can’t resist mentioning: Paul Auster in conversation with Michelle Richmond on Tuesday the 16th, and [...]
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Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY & SLAVOJ ZIZEK: A Debate Instigated by Paul Holdengräber Violence & the Left in Dark Times Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:00 PM Celeste Bartos Forum Humanities and Social Sciences Library 5th Avenue and 42nd Street (directions) $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification September 17 DANIEL MENDELSOHN & JAMES WOOD in conversation with...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
IN 1967, THE CULT AMERICAN novelist Paul Auster witnessed one of the worst race riots in American history, a night of unimaginable violence in Newark, New Jersey. More than 2
