Paul Auster (1949-)

American novelist. Has also written poetry, short plays, and essays.


Author's life and works
Literature Online

Interviews
2007 Interview: "Powell’s Author Interviews" Auster talks about his recent book Travels in the Scriptorium.

2001 Interview: Dan Epstein interviews Paul Auster about the American Story Project, radio program and book.

"An Interview with Paul Auster" by McCaffery and Gregory, from Contemporary Literature, 1992.
Mostly about The New York Trilogy and Moon Palace


The New York Trilogy
"Auster's City of Glass" by Marjorie Worthington, Explicator, Spring 2006

"Fanshawe's Ghost" by J M Tyree, New England Review, Summer 2003

"Secrecy and the gift: Paul Auster's The Locked Room." by Alex Segal, Critique: studies in contemporary fiction, 1998

"Mirrors of madness: Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy." by Steven E. Alford, Critique: studies in contemporary fiction, 1995

"Public Personae And The Private I: De-Compositional Ontology in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy" from Modern Fiction Studies, 2006

"The revenge of the author: Paul Auster's challenge to theory." by John Zilcosky, Critique: studies in contemporary fiction, 1998

"Approaching the threshold(s) in postmodern detective fiction." by Richard Swope, Critique: studies in contemporary fiction, 1998


Other criticism
"Changing Identities in Paul Auster's Moon Palace" by Anniken Telnes Iversen from Nordlit, no. 17, Spring 2005, pp. 125-141.

Postmodern counternarratives: irony and audience in the novels of Paul Auster, Don Delillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien
By Christopher Donovan, New York: Routledge, 2005. E-book available in NetLibrary through the university library.

Links

Paul Auster. The Definitive Website

Paul Auster reads from From Hand to Mouth

Author page at Literature Online

Critical articles on Paul Auster