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Paul Auster
Paul Auster Paul Auster is the author of numerous novels, screenplays, essays, and books of poetry. His most recent novel is Oracle Night. His books The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu were national best-sellers, as was I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited. His new novel, The Brooklyn Follies, is forthcoming at the end of the year from Henry Holt.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Paul Auster at State of Emergency
Listen to his reading of "Route" by George Oppen.
Paul Auster on Samuel Beckett in PEN America 5: Silences
Read Paul Auster's work in the PEN American Center literary journal. More 
Participating in the Following Events
Monday, December 5: 7 p.m.
Telling the (Whole Story): Celebrating Writers of Color

Tuesday, November 8: 7 p.m.
State of Emergency

Saturday, April 16: 2-3:30pm
Conversation: Paul Auster and Chico Buarque

Saturday, April 16: 7-9pm
Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute
Paul Auster in Le Monde
For there are clearly, at this time, in this country, attacks on freedom of expression, censorship, all of that justified in the name of the war against terrorism, as though that struggle authorized everything. In particular, we demand that the Patriot Act, which allows many censorship and surveillance activities that attack freedom of expression and respect for privacy, be amended. More 
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