Conversations with Paul Auster

Index

213 Adventures in Poetry (magazine), 205 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 135, 175 Altman, Robert, 54 Alvarez, Julia, xviii American Notebooks (Hawthorne), xx, 9, 173–74 Ames, Jonathan, xix Amis, Martin, 127 Amsterdam, 129 Applewhite, Ashton, xxn Aragon, Louis, 72 Argo, Victor, 63, 115 Art and Literature (magazine), 205 Ashbery, John, 45 Auster, Anna (grandmother), xxi, 82 Auster, Daniel (son), xxii, 86, 89, 90 Auster, Harry (grandfather), xxi, 82 Auster, Paul Anthologies Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems, Translations, A, 205 Fiction “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story,” 50, 57, 58, 59, 61 Book of Illusions, The, xvi, xvii, xxiii, 127, 129, 130, 143, 145, 146, 147, 152, 156, 158, 164, 177, 179, 197 City of Glass, xi, xiv, xvii, xviii, xxii, 8, 9, 14, 20, 22, 25, 27–30, 31, 33, 87, 91, 102, 103, 125, 140. See also New York Trilogy Ghosts, xi, xvii, 9, 10, 23, 33, 140, 144, 73, 193 In the Country of Last Things, xi, xiv, 11, 22, 34, 35, 76, 86, 91, 95, 101, 103, 141, 164, 165, 166 Invisible, 199, 201, 203–5, 207–11 Leviathan, 51, 52, 91, 95, 129, 141, 144, 164, 165 Locked Room, The, xi, xvii, 10, 17, 20, 27, 34, 100, 140, 174 Man in the Dark, xix, 193–95, 199, 201, 208 Moon Palace, xii, xiv, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 22, 34, 36–38, 41, 76, 95, 100, 101, 141, 164, 171, 173 Mr. Vertigo, 54, 75, 77, 79, 90–91, 95, 97, 128, 145, 164, 168 Music of Chance, The (novel), xvii, 13, 17, 18, 20, 26, 34, 37, 38, 41, 44, 47, 49, 76, 77, 141, 163, 166; (film), xxii, 55, 103, 104, 115, 128 New York Trilogy, xi, xiv, xviii, 7, 8, 12, 23, 35, 86, 87, 101, 128, 136, 164, 167, 172 Oracle Night, 125–26, 128, 129, 131, 133, 146–47, 148, 150, 152, 155, 161, 163, 64, 169, 171, 172, 173, 192 Squeeze Play (“Paul Benjamin”), xxii Sunset Park, xii, xxiii, 199–200, 201 Timbuktu, xxiii, 141, 145, 164, 168, 201 Index 214 INDEX Films Blue in the Face, xv, xxii, 50, 62, 78, 104, 106, 113–15, 118, 137, 173, 184 Inner Life of Martin Frost, The, xv, xxii, 180, 190, 192 Lulu on the Bridge, xv, xxiii, 106–8, 113, 137, 152, 158, 181, 182, 183, 186, 187, 189 Smoke, xv, xxii, xxiii, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 104, 106, 113, 114, 115, 118, 120, 128, 137, 173, 183–87, 190, 197, 208 Nonfiction “Art of Hunger, The” (M.A. thesis), xiv Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure, xv, 104, 142, 153 I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project (ed.), xvii Invention of Solitude, The, xi, xiv, xxii, 6, 8, 21, 27, 31, 34, 40, 42, 46, 70, 86–87, 137, 144, 160 Random House Book of Twentieth Century Poetry, The (ed.), xvi, xxii, 28 Red Notebook, The, xvii, 137, 138, 171 “Story of My Typewriter, The,” xii, 133 Why Write?, 177 Auster, Queenie (nee Bogat) (mother), xv, xxi, 16, 83, 89, 134, 141, 149, 207 Auster, Samuel (father), xi, xiv, xxi, xxii, 6, 17, 21, 24, 26, 27, 39, 81, 82, 84, 87, 89, 95–96, 142, 160 Auster, Sophie (daughter), xxii, 26–27, 157, 173, 174, 183, 185, 188 Avery, Tex, 127 Babel, Isaac, 191 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 25 Banks, Russell, 146 Barnes, Julian, xviii Barr, Roseanne, 63 Barth, John, xviii, 30, 131 Baseball, xv, 21, 120, 134, 177 Bataille, Georges, 11 Baudelaire, Charles, 3 Baxter, Charles, 146 Baytown, Texas, 101 Beaucarne, Christophe, 185, 186, 187, 190 Beckett, Samuel, xiii, xiv, xix, 5, 6, 8, 12, 42, 43, 44, 93, 128, 190 Berg Collection (New York Public Library), 67–68, 70 Berlin, Germany, 129, 176, 182 Best Years of Our Lives, The (film), 207 Bicycle Thief, The (film), 195 Binoche, Juliette, 114–15 “Birthmark, The” (Hawthorne), xvii Black Panthers, 204 Blindfold, The (Hustvedt), 141 Borges, Jorge Luis, xviii, 17, 30, 141 Borgese, Elisabeth Mann, 141 Born, Bertran de, 206–7 Boston, Massachusetts, 17, 129 Boston Globe, 9 Brainard, Joe, 205 Branco, Paolo, 182, 185 Branco, Ze, 183, 186, 188 Brautigan, Richard, xviii Bresson, Henri, 53 Bridge, The (Crane), xix, 102 Brod, Max, 65 Brook, Peter, 108 Brooklyn, New York, xii, xix, xxii, xxiii, 28, INDEX 215 31, 50, 51, 62, 63, 76, 102, 128, 154, 155, 159, 172–73...