Paul Auster Reading Week Feb 2020

In early 2020, from 17-23rd February, I will be hosting a reading week for the American author Paul Auster – who is my favourite living writer. This is the home page for that project – and I’ll be adding content here as I prepare and will add all reviews during the week.

Paul Auster Bibliography

Fiction

  • Squeeze Play (1984) (Written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin)
  • The New York Trilogy (1987) – review (2009 – re-read)
    • City of Glass (1985)
    • Ghosts (1986)
    • The Locked Room (1986)
  • In the Country of Last Things (1987) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • Moon Palace (1989) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • The Music of Chance (1990) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story (1990) – (in the TBR)
  • Leviathan (1992) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • Mr. Vertigo (1994) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • Timbuktu (1999) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • The Book of Illusions (2002) – (in the TBR)
  • Oracle Night (2003) – (in the TBR)
  • The Brooklyn Follies (2005) – Review (2020)
  • Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) – review (2018)
  • Man in the Dark (2008) – read Pre-Blog – Re-Read Review (2020)
  • Invisible (2009) – review (2009)
  • Sunset Park (2010) – (in the TBR)
  • Day/Night (2013)  (This is actually an omnibus of Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark, I discovered after buying a copy)
  • 4 3 2 1 (2017) – review (2017)

Poetry

  • Unearth (1974)
  • Wall Writing (1976)
  • Fragments from the Cold (1977)
  • Facing the Music (1980)
  • Disappearances: Selected Poems (1988)
  • Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays 1970-1979 (1991) – (in the TBR)
  • Collected Poems (Faber, 2007) – (in the TBR)

Screenplays

  • The Music of Chance (1993) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • Smoke (1995) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • Blue in the Face (1995) – (read Pre-Blog)
  • Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
  • The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007) – (in the TBR)
  • Collected Screenplays – May 2020

Essays, memoirs, and autobiographies

  • The Invention of Solitude (1982) – (in the TBR)
  • The Art of Hunger (1992)
  • The Red Notebook (1995) (The Red Notebook was originally printed in Granta (44)). (1993). – review (2009)
  • Hand to Mouth (1997) – (in the TBR)
  • Collected Prose (contains The Invention of SolitudeThe Art of HungerThe Red Notebook, and Hand to Mouth as well as various other previously uncollected pieces) (first edition, 2005; expanded second edition, 2010)
  • Winter Journal (2012) – (review) (2012)
  • Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011 (2013) A collection of letters exchanged with J. M. Coetzee – (in the TBR)
  • Report from the Interior (2013) – (in the TBR)
  • A Life in Words: In Conversation with I. B. Siegumfeldt (2017) – Review (2020)
  • Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017 (2019) – (in the TBR)
  • Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979-2012 (May 2020)

Edited collections

  • The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry (1982)
  • True Tales of American Life (First published under the title I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project) (2001) – (in the TBR)

Translations

  • “The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of André du Bouchet” (1976)
  • Life/Situations, by JeanPaul Sartre, 1977 (in collaboration with Lydia Davis)
  • A Tomb for Anatole, by Stéphane Mallarmé (1983)
  • Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1998) (translation of Pierre Clastres’ ethnography Chronique des indiens Guayaki)
  • The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (2005)
  • Vicious Circles: Two fictions & “After the Fact”, by Maurice Blanchot, 1999
  • Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin, translated by Paul Auster, Living Hand Editions, 1974

Miscellaneous

  • The Story of My Typewriter with paintings by Sam Messer (2002)
  • “The Accidental Rebel” (Wed. April 23 article in New York Times)
  • “ALONE” (2015) Prose piece from 1969 published in six copies along with “Becoming the Other in Translation” (2014) by Siri Hustvedt. Published by Danish small press Ark Editions

By Other Authors

  • The World That is the Book: Paul Auster Fiction by Aliki Varvogli (2001) – in the TBR
  • City of Glass – the graphic novel, adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli (1995) – Review