Conversations with Paul Auster

Contents

ix Contents Introduction xi Chronology xxi Translation 3 Stephen Rodefer / 1985 Interview with Paul Auster 5 Joseph Mallia / 1987 An Interview with Paul Auster 13 Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory / 1989 Memory’s Escape—Inventing the Music of Chance: A Conversation with Paul Auster 40 Mark Irwin / 1992 The Making of Smoke 50 Annette Insdorf / 1994 The Manuscript in the Book: A Conversation 64 Michel Contat / 1994 An Interview with Paul Auster 95 Ashton Applewhite / 1994 The Futurist Radio Hour: An Interview with Paul Auster 100 Stephen Capen / 1996 Paul Auster: Writer and Director 106 Rebecca Prime / 1998 x CONTENTS Off the Page: Paul Auster 125 Carole Burns / 2003 Paul Auster: The Art of Fiction 132 Michael Wood / 2003 Jonathan Lethem Talks with Paul Auster 149 The Believer / 2005 A Conversation with Paul Auster 163 Mary Morris / 2005 The Making of The Inner Life of Martin Frost 179 Céline Curiol / 2006 Interview: Paul Auster 193 Greg LaGambina / 2008 A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster 198 Juliet Linderman / 2009 Interview: Paul Auster on His New Novel, Invisible 203 Nick Obourn / 2010 Index 213 ...