An updated edition with six new essays, including "An Evening at Shea" and "Remembering Beckett," as well as two long interviews from "one of America's greats" (Time Out Chicago)
The celebrated author of Invisible, The New York Trilogy, and The Book of Illusions presents a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings (including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude), and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Collected Prose records the passions and insights of a writer who "will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
HAND TO MOUTH
TRUE STORIES
The Red Notebook
Why Write?
Accident Report
It Don't Mean a Thing
GOTHAM HANDBOOK
THE STORY OF MY TYPEWRITER
NORTHERN LIGHTS
Pages for Kafka
The Death of Sir Walter Raleigh
Northern Lights
CRITICAL ESSAYS
The Art of Hunger
New York Babel
Dada Bones
Truth, Beauty, Silence
From Cakes to Scones
The Poetry of Exile
Innocence and Memory
Book of the Dead
Reznikoff x2
The Bartlebooth Follies
PREFACES
Jacques Dupin
André du Bouchet
Black on White
Twentieth-Century French Poetry
Mallarme's Son
On the High Wire
Translator's Note
The National Story Project
A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems
The Art of Worry
Invisible Joubert
Hawthorne at Home
OCCASIONS
A Prayer for Salman Rushdie
Appeal to the Governor of Pennsylvania
The Best Substitute for War
Reflections on a Cardboard Box
Random Notes: September 11-2001-4:00 PM
Underground
NYC = USA
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