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 Solitude, The Art of Hunger, The 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 Jean–Paul 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
