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Subject: Re:City of Glass

Date: Sun, 02 February 1997 01:52 AM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <board-c-folder-002e82a7-msg-005ada76-at-32f5f398@aol.com>

Paul Auster must be hiding out in some Hotel. Come out. You can't sleep there

anymore. 

Subject: god blocks

Date: Tue, 04 February 1997 09:35 AM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970204143501.JAA06393@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I am still waiting to hear about the publishing date of PA's next novel. The

idea of a mystery invoving three seminaries, Columbia, Damon Runyon and a

corrupted police Lieutenant appeals to me. Lets go PA and publishers. 

Subject: Re: god blocks

Date: Thu, 06 February 1997 11:28 AM EST

From: BlueTrane

Message-id: <19970206162800.LAA06850@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Hey Lingers,

How many times do I need to tell you? The next book is called "Hand to Mouth"

and it's coming out in June. It's already available in France (so if you read

French - go for it). After that there will be a new novel - but it's not

about the "god blocks."

-bluetrane

Subject: Re: New fan, criticism

Date: Mon, 10 February 1997 02:55 AM EST

From: Wryse

Message-id: <19970210075501.CAA25064@ladder01.news.aol.com>

There is one published collection that I perused some time ago.  I believe it

is titled "Beyond the Red Notebook", a reference either to the Quinn's red

notebook in "City of Glass" or the last section of his collection of personal

notes in "The Art of Hunger", or both.

If I recall correctly, there's only one essay per work, and not all of them

are favorable (I remember that whoever critiqued "Ghosts" felt that the

carelessness of the setting -- I don't have a copy anymore, but there's some

line at the beginning where it reads that the story "takes place on some

street, let's call it Orange Street" -- was a signal of the overall

carelessness of the work), so it may be of limited use to you.

Subject: leviathan

Date: Thu, 13 February 1997 08:30 PM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970214013000.UAA18385@ladder01.news.aol.com>

His most commercial novel

Subject: Re: keeping up

Date: Tue, 18 February 1997 01:15 AM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970218061500.BAA04939@ladder01.news.aol.com>

moure postings please

Subject: Re: keeping up

Date: Sun, 23 February 1997 11:40 PM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970224044000.XAA23767@ladder02.news.aol.com>

lingers may know what he is talking about or about what is to be talked

about; but it is important to kkep the auster file open until the new book

comes out. Then the fans we used to know and love will re-appear. and where

is DENTRAL. or BLUTRANE 

Subject: Re: Thanks Pita

Date: Sun, 23 February 1997 11:42 PM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970224044200.XAA24020@ladder02.news.aol.com>

i shure hope that walden books has cum thru for you and that you have read

something by P/A by now. something is better than nothing. 

Subject: Can't wait to read something by PA

Date: Wed, 26 February 1997 11:38 PM EST

From: Frzn one

Message-id: <19970227043800.XAA14566@ladder02.news.aol.com>

thank you to my friend who asked me to leave a note here...

after reading the postings I am curious to find out for myself what this

author is about

Subject: Re: Can't wait to read something by PA

Date: Sat, 08 March 1997 03:58 PM EST

From: JoeRioux

Message-id: <19970308205801.PAA03634@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I've written a review of Paul's first novella in City of Glass.  It's at 

http://www.teleport.com/~bjscript/wauster.htm.  I used the novella to review

some principles of storytelling.

JoeRioux

Subject: Paul??

Date: Thu, 13 March 1997 10:04 PM EST

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <19970314030400.WAA11241@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Could Paul possibly be lurking around here with a different screen name?

Could he be laughing at us all right now just giving him such praise. Perhaps

he has stories in the AOL Library..Do you think you could figure out which

stories those might be????

  Just wondered if anyone knew...I just be he's writing..somewhere....

 Felicia

Subject: The music of Chance

Date: Thu, 13 March 1997 10:07 PM EST

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <19970314030900.WAA11503@ladder01.news.aol.com>

  Was there ever a movie made out of this work? I was wondering if it was a

James Spader movie?

Subject: Re: Can't wait to read something by PA

Date: Sat, 15 March 1997 03:13 PM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970315201300.PAA25883@ladder01.news.aol.com>

save BOOKS & COMPANY. Wirte to "Chairman Leonard  Lauder", Whitney Museum of

Art, 930 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021. Tell him to renew the lease on

the best independent bookstore in NYC> Paul Auster is on the commiteee to

save this unique store. 

centrator

Subject: Re: The music of Chance

Date: Sat, 15 March 1997 03:20 PM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970315202000.PAA26289@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Two messages for you. 1) Yes an excellent movie was made of Music of Chance.

Mandy Ptemkin starred. Auster had a cameo at the end. I believe that PA wrote

the script. Get the video. 2) Yes, I believe that PA crawls around AOL in

different guises. The problem is that nothing interesting has been in the PA

file in a long time. 3) yes, I know I said 2 messasges but there is a third

important one: Write to Leonard Lauder, Chairman of the Board of

trustees of the Whitney Museum of Art, 930 Madison Avenue NYC NY 10021. Tell

him that BOOKS & COMPANY should be saved. the Whitney is the landlord of this

fabulous INDEPENDENT bookstore and a new lease must be issued. Paul A is on

the committee to save the store. Love, Mike.

centrator

Subject: Leviathan...

Date: Fri, 21 March 1997 08:42 PM EST

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <19970322014201.UAA13453@ladder01.news.aol.com>

one of my favorite lines from  Leviathan....

"We both went somewhere, and we both came back. As far as I can tell, we're

both sitting in the same place now."

"Books are born out of ignorance, and if they go on living after they are

written, it's only to the degree that they cannot be understood."

-Felicia

Subject: Siri...

Date: Sun, 23 March 1997 02:12 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970323191201.OAA08370@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Lcos4M leaves us two of Auster's lines. Siri, his spouse, says: "To forgot is

ordinary.Even people in mourning distracted by some little happiness forget

the dead." And spouse Siri also says: " You became the man. You stepped into

his shoes and promptly deleted him form the painting. He's a spectator too,

almost a double of the person viewing the painting. For you he was

expendable. You saw him but didn't see him. " >>>who does that sound

like.??? The Blindfold. Siri Hustvedt.

Subject: Paul on AOL

Date: Sun, 23 March 1997 03:10 PM EST

From: BlueTrane

Message-id: <19970323201000.PAA12123@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I have to say that Paul Auster has never been on AOL, and never even seen

what the internet looks like. He can't even use a computer, much less an

electric typewriter. He pounds out his novels and essays on an old manual

clunker - the racket is intense when he gets up to speed.

-bluetrane

Subject: Re: Paul on AOL

Date: Thu, 27 March 1997 03:55 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970327205500.PAA01004@ladder01.news.aol.com>

He can drive a car--or was that a stand-in in the Music of Chance>?

Subject: more Leviathan

Date: Sun, 30 March 1997 09:53 AM EST

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <19970330145300.JAA21021@ladder01.news.aol.com>

"It would be a portrait in absentia, an outline drawn around and empty space,

and little by little a figure would emerge from the background, pieced

together from everything he was not."

Subject: Paul at Sun & Moon Press

Date: Mon, 31 March 1997 04:19 AM EST

From: AD Alvarez

Message-id: <19970331091901.EAA25131@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I just found out that Auster's backlist (the NY Trilogy and such) now resides

with Sun & Moon Press, a small literary press.  Did Penguin dump him?

**** My mother is a fish.

Subject: Re: Paul at Sun & Moon Press

Date: Sat, 05 April 1997 12:04 AM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970405050500.AAA07050@ladder01.news.aol.com>

sun and moon was one of the first presses to publish Auster. And are you the

AD Alvarez, the writer. ? 

Subject: amazon.com

Date: Tue, 08 April 1997 08:29 PM EDT

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970408232900.TAA16158@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I don't like to advertise businesses, but I have been using Amazon for some

time. I had never looked up Paul Auster at Amazon until yesterday.   They

list more Auster books than Drenttel has in his bibliography;(exaggeration) 

centrator

Subject: Re: The music of Chance

Date: Thu, 10 April 1997 02:33 PM EDT

From: SEckert131

Message-id: <19970410173401.NAA10450@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Yes, there was a movie of "The Music of Chance".  It had a wittier, better

ending than the book!  Starred Mandy Patinkin, Joel Grey, Charles Durning,

and another actor -- could have been Spader, I don't remember.  It got a very

limited theatrical release a few years ago.  I saw it as a first-run movie in

a second-run theater.

There is also a graphic-novel version of "City of Glass" that has a graphic

version of our hero in it.  First of the "Neon Lit" series -- can't remember

the publisher.

--SME

Subject: Leviathan

Date: Fri, 11 April 1997 03:06 PM EDT

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <19970411180601.OAA04127@ladder01.news.aol.com>

  Saches was really an unusual character...yet pretty ordinary in one aspect,

& yet quite extoridinary too...Now I keep looking for my own Saches (that

could be Seches). This novel is full of pardoxes, strange situations and yet

rather low key. I enjoyed the novel very much and would recommend it on

anyones list who wants to read Auster's work. It clearly shows him as a

writer, what it's like to have a writer's life (a darn good one at that, but

he still shows the ups and downs). He exposed so many different kind of

characters..some more graphic than others, and still had a good heart on

knowing what matters most in this world.

Felicia

Subject: Auster's latest work may be available

Date: Tue, 15 April 1997 12:16 AM EDT

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970415031601.XAA05938@ladder01.news.aol.com>

"A Blanchot Reader" French Lit Crit. P/A has essays herein. Apr 1, '97 ISBN

1886449171

"Translations." Paul Auster, Poetry, prose, Crit. April 1, ISBN 1568860323

" Translations." paperback ISBN. April 1, ISBN 1568860331 ; 

this information courtesy AMAZON.com

centrator

Subject: Simple preasance

Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 11:01 PM EDT

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970509030100.XAA25473@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Isn't possible that P?A might do something for mother's day? 

centrator

Subject: American Pastoral

Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 11:04 PM EDT

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970509030400.XAA25677@ladder01.news.aol.com>

American Pastoral ....As P/A is doing no writing at this time lets begin to

chat about Roth--until Paul comes back ...A/P (the reverse of of P/A, notice)

is a page turner, a pot-boiler and a study of the lind of life we "need" to

lead, if we are to become human before we die. Let's hope that some of us

make a few comments of interest on this meesage board regarding A/P. 

centrator

Subject: Paul Auster's New York

Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:15 AM EDT

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19970511041501.AAA08233@ladder01.news.aol.com>

At last, word has arrived of a forthcoming Paul Auster book. His Homes and

Haunts in New York State.

centrator

Subject: new book

Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 07:36 PM EDT

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970516233601.TAA02843@ladder02.news.aol.com>

still waiting havine't seen anything yet

Subject: Re: Auster's latest work may be available

Date: Tue, 10 June 1997 12:58 AM EDT

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970610045800.AAA06960@ladder02.news.aol.com>

It would be a great idea if Auster's publishers would give us a hint of what

is to come. 

Subject: Re: Paul Auster's New York

Date: Tue, 10 June 1997 12:59 AM EDT

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970610045900.AAA07063@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Oh yeah, when and where? 

Subject: Re: American Pastoral

Date: Tue, 10 June 1997 01:04 AM EDT

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970610050400.BAA07520@ladder02.news.aol.com>

This book, which Centrator thinks is a potboiler, a pageturner, oneof Roth's

usual Top of the Mark works. He wites about assimilation, the American

Dream--which he does not see as a failure--and the insanity of the left

sixties' generation.  

Subject: Moon Palace

Date: Thu, 10 July 1997 02:52 PM EDT

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <19970710185201.OAA02785@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Any fans out there of this novel who'd like to share on this one? 

Nothing like keeping some quotes from one of Auster's books to linger

over..right Lingers?

Felicia

Subject: charley rose.

Date: Mon, 15 September 1997 05:18 PM EDT

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19970915211800.RAA06259@ladder01.news.aol.com>

this is a late announcement--but Auster is going to be on Charley rose

tonight.

Subject: Re: Paul at Sun & Moon Press

Date: Wed, 17 September 1997 01:06 AM EDT

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <19970917050601.BAA10380@ladder02.news.aol.com>

sun and moon was far ahead of the game and was Auster's first

publisher.perhaps he decided that he owned something to the people who first

took a chance* on him. 

*Chance: one of auster's themes/ 

Subject: lost horizon

Date: Thu, 18 September 1997 05:48 PM EDT

From: Astrid42

Message-id: <19970918214801.RAA14297@ladder02.news.aol.com>

I have read most of auster;s work and consider myself to be a fan. When is

his next work coming. I was disppointed that auster was kicked off Charlie

Rose, but am still waiting to see him.

Subject: Why Am I So Late In Discovering Paul Auster

Date: Wed, 15 October 1997 10:21 AM EDT

From: DAdam22692

Message-id: <19971015142101.KAA10890@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I consider myself a fairly avid reader....I hit at least one book a week, if

not two.  I just picked up Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things which

is wonderfully great...Paul will be read many years from now with that book.

I am beginning to read is other work.  Anything that measures up to "In The

Country?"

Happy tales, Diann

Subject: new books

Date: Tue, 18 November 1997 01:02 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19971118180201.NAA21244@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Before this file is closed, auster fans aught to start filling it.

Subject: new books

Date: Wed, 19 November 1997 02:02 AM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19971119070201.CAA09445@ladder02.news.aol.com>

anyone read either of P/A's recent publications? Do we have to wait for

reviews before commenting on them? 

centrator

Subject: Paul on Charlie Rose

Date: Thu, 20 November 1997 04:35 PM EST

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <19971120213500.QAA22140@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Here's a few notes from Paul Auster on Charlie Rose, Oct 15, '07. Rose: Likes

PA's clarity of prose. Asks why this story of early struggle (Hand to Mouth)

...PA: I had to be stubborn and pigheaded..it is a "how not to.." book."

Auster rejected the possiblity of regualr employment at an early age ...

Auster made wrong early marriage...writer must believe in what he is doing.

.book is about getting money. Auster says he writes about what it feels like

to be alive in your head...and yet it is happening outside of your head...The

world is in my head; my body is in the world...Book is seen thru the eyes of

the protagonists...Vertigo deals with unconsciousness images of falling. Many

of Auster's books include these imagaes.Auster's Dad did fall off a roof in

New Jersey....   Comments and corrections invited.

Subject: new posting

Date: Fri, 21 November 1997 06:34 PM EST

From: PLV1Larew

Message-id: <19971121233401.SAA24158@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Hello.  I just found out about this message board, but I've been an Auster

fan for a few years now.  Haven't yet read Hand to Mouth, though I recently

bought "Why Write".  Felt a bit cheated, to tell the truth.  Not by the

writing, but by the small amount of writing.  Any comments?

E. Larew

Subject: City of Glass graphic novel

Date: Fri, 21 November 1997 06:35 PM EST

From: PLV1Larew

Message-id: <19971121233500.SAA22722@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Anyone else seen this adaptation by Paul Mazzuchelli?  It's what turned me on

to Auster and I think it's brilliantly done.  It complements the novel yet

stands on its own.  Great stuff.

E. Larew

Subject: New Books

Date: Sun, 23 November 1997 11:45 PM EST

From: Drenttel

Message-id: <19971124044501.XAA14351@ladder02.news.aol.com>

BStrongart asked me to join this discussion board. I compiled Auster's

bibliography a couple of years ago, as well as published Auggie Wren's

Christmas Story. Information about these titles can be found at

my websites: www.wdny.com and www.jhwd.com

Auster is busy making another movie, which he wrote and is directing. There

have been quite a few Auster titles recently: 

Hand to Mouth from Henry Holt. ..

Translations from Marsilio, which contains five books by various poets and

writers which Auster translated. ..

Paul Auster's New York, a privately distributed (for copyright reasons) books

of excerpts about (and with photographs of) New York...

There's an amazing book by religion professor Mark Taylor titled Hiding

(Univ. of Chicago) which has a whole chapter on Auster and identity...

I'll post more as I think of more news.

Bill Drenttel

Subject: Re: New Books

Date: Tue, 25 November 1997 10:28 AM EST

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <19971125152801.KAA06931@ladder02.news.aol.com>

can you obtain "privately printed for copyright reasons" book? If so what is

cost? 

Subject: Re: City of Glass graphic novel

Date: Tue, 25 November 1997 10:30 AM EST

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <19971125153000.KAA07152@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Yes, I have this version as well as the original. My eyes are too old to

appreciate the graphic version. But, my son, a non-reader, got right into it.

Subject: new stuff

Date: Sun, 30 November 1997 01:44 AM EST

From: Poncita

Message-id: <19971130064401.BAA06168@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I can't wait to see the lastest published stuff by Auster, but why is anyone

writing about them? Isn't auster taken seriously anymore? 

Subject: remarks on auster books from sari

Date: Sun, 30 November 1997 01:52 AM EST

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <19971130065201.BAA06756@ladder01.news.aol.com>

my favorite is moonpalace... oh its a gorgeous book. vertigo was a wonderful

journey, country of last things somber but enlightening.  i enoyed his other

books too altho i have yet to read leviathan. right now im working on the

fountainhead. intriguing book altho i do not have as much time as i would

like to read of course.  cheers,

sari

Subject: mysixteen

Date: Sun, 30 November 1997 02:05 AM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19971130070501.CAA06030@ladder02.news.aol.com>

An interesting geneological sidelight. see this book, "My Sixteen" if you can

find it. It describes how to find your 16 great grandparents and is very well

written. The style of the writer reminds me, at times, of P/A. 

centrator

Subject: autotalking

Date: Fri, 05 December 1997 11:01 PM EST

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <19971206040101.XAA03259@ladder01.news.aol.com>

this is like talking to my self. ain't anyone else innerested in Paul? 

Subject: new blood

Date: Mon, 08 December 1997 02:40 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19971208194001.OAA25935@ladder01.news.aol.com>

There are not enough contributors to this spac e which is kiling the quality

of the messages. we need new blood. soon. 

Subject: more autotalk

Date: Thu, 11 December 1997 06:16 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19971211231601.SAA15907@ladder02.news.aol.com>

this is getting frustrating. doesn't anyone have anthing to say about Paul? 

Subject: Re: more autotalk

Date: Sun, 14 December 1997 12:53 PM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19971214175300.MAA03046@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Well, I guess that Auster fans are losing their interest./Lingers is right. 

centrator

Subject: ok, here's a subject

Date: Wed, 17 December 1997 05:37 PM EST

From: Mahertj

Message-id: <19971217223701.RAA07431@ladder01.news.aol.com>

i'm a writing teacher at emerson college in boston and i'm thinking of using

"new york trilogy" in my class next semester. anyone know of any good sources

of literary criticism? also, if you were a student and/or teacher in such a

class, what topics/themes might you be interested in discussing? please post,

and thanks in advance for any input.

haven't read "hand to mouth" yet, but it's on my x-mas list,  and i'm looking

forward to it ...

Subject: Auster News

Date: Thu, 18 December 1997 01:29 AM EST

From: Drenttel

Message-id: <19971218062901.BAA27566@ladder02.news.aol.com>

OK, just to add some new news into this limited discussion, here's what's on

my desk by or about Paul Auster:

1)A video tape of Charlie Rose show on 10/14/97 (Show#2008) with a long

interview about Hand to Mouth

2) A bunch of pages torn out of rare book catalogues listing booksby auster

for sale. The most expensive item is Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, which I

published,  only the 1/100 in boards copies for $225. Who can imagine what

dealers are getting for the 1/50 leather bound editions?

3)Granta #60, with a translation by Auster of Pierre Clastres writings

titled, The Life and Death of a Homosexual. This is the newest work by Auster

in print.

4) Criminal Proceedings: the Contemporary American Crime Noavel edited by

Peter Messent (Pluto Press, paperback, $16.95 with a one paragraph mention of

Auster on pp.113-114.

5)The finallly reasonablly priced video tape of Blue in the Face, directed by

Auster and Wayne Wang. It was only $18.99

6) A review of Hand to Mouth by Wayne Koestenbaum in BookForum, the Winter

book review supplement to ArtForum.

7) A review of Hand to Mouth by in the TLS, Oct. 31 issue.

8) A clipping from Vogue Paris, Aug. 1997 with Paul and Siri in black tie at

Cannes.

9) A short review of Hand to Mouth in New York Magazine, Sept. 8th issue.

10) A video tape television interview with Auster from Israel, wher he visted

last year.

Subject: Re: Auster News

Date: Thu, 18 December 1997 04:57 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19971218215700.QAA20825@ladder02.news.aol.com>

thanks!! I am going to try to get TLS and Art/Book Forum,. Granta will be

easy./ 

Subject: Re: ok, here's a subject

Date: Thu, 18 December 1997 05:09 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19971218221001.RAA24346@ladder01.news.aol.com>

I am sure that I don't have to tell you that identity, doppleganger,

coinincidence and chance are important issues in NY Triolgy, and to Auster..

I know nothing about lit crit, so i can't help you there. In discussing NY

Triolgy with my wife I discovered that she had not thought through the

difference between chance and coincidence. Ask your students about that. Also

much of Auster seems to derive from Jung, Sarte, and Marlemee..... There is a

half

issue of  xxxxx devoted to Auster. Sorry, it escapes my mind. Ask Drenttel,

he will remember. Auster is on the cutting edge of literature today. What a

writer. You might also ask a few students to Read the Blindfold. Don't tell

them that it was written by his wife. See if they recognise the similarity in

subject and style. For all I know Auster is writing under her name. He would

appreciate a literary joke like that. /.Mike

Subject: ???

Date: Sat, 31 January 1998 10:11 AM EST

From: Red sly567

Message-id: <19980131151101.KAA19235@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Okay, I'll bite.  Who are you, Paul Auster?  SD

Subject: Re: ???

Date: Thu, 05 February 1998 08:47 AM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19980205134701.IAA04348@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Interesting that you ask who Paul Auster is. He is a writer who often writes

about identity, lost identity and dopleganger. He is also interested in

chance and fate. As you came upon his foom by CHANCE and you wanted to know

who he was (his IDENTITY) I suggest that you get out one or two of his

novels. Start with "New York Triolgy," then read the "Music of Chance." let

us know what you think. 

centrator

Subject: Re: ???

Date: Wed, 18 February 1998 04:47 PM EST

From: Red sly567

Message-id: <19980218214700.QAA01865@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Hey Centrator..

Just got NY Trilogy from the library.  Will let you know what I think when

I'm through. Red

Subject: redhead

Date: Fri, 27 February 1998 03:14 AM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <19980227081401.DAA17079@ladder02.news.aol.com>

red head

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centrator

Subject: The New York Trilogy

Date: Sun, 01 March 1998 09:31 PM EST

From: Red sly567

Message-id: <19980302023101.VAA08401@ladder03.news.aol.com>

I found this book absoluting fascinating.  Mr. Auster has a true talent of

interlocking stories and characters like I've never seen before.  Thank you

C, for recommending it to me.  Red

Subject: Re: The New York Trilogy

Date: Sat, 07 March 1998 12:22 AM EST

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <19980307052200.AAA25863@ladder03.news.aol.com>

please pass your approbation  on to another literate friend. 

Subject: c-span

Date: Mon, 09 March 1998 10:38 PM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19980310033800.WAA19643@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Auster was on C-Span last night. Original recorded on Sept 16, 1997, at the

NY Public Library. His writing is consistently moving in new directions. He

makes an effort not to re-write the same novel. His poem "White Spaces is a

sort of bridge into his novels. He likes to quote XXXX who said, "money costs

too much." It is important to him that his stories and anecdotes have no

meaning other than the stories themselves. They should be read as they

stand and not read into. They have no greater meaning than themselves. The

story, the anecdote itself is a form of knowledge--it cannot be read into. it

is not reducable. It must be irreducable. He quotes again: " All art is

failure. Failure is not as easy as it looks." Somehow after writing  "Squeeze

Play." under the pen name Paul Benjamin, he began to understand Quinn better.

He had started to write what we know as the NY Trilogy novels before

Squeeze Play. 

Subject: Re: c-span

Date: Mon, 09 March 1998 10:47 PM EST

From: Poncita

Message-id: <19980310034800.WAA25912@ladder03.news.aol.com>

at least someone on aol is paying atention to Paul Auster. Thanks, lingers.

Subject: Re: ???

Date: Mon, 09 March 1998 10:48 PM EST

From: Poncita

Message-id: <19980310034800.WAA25928@ladder03.news.aol.com>

did you see Paul Auster on C-span last night.? 

Subject: Re: autotalking

Date: Sat, 14 March 1998 06:44 PM EST

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <19980314234401.SAA22089@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Sure we are Sari....

Keep Reading his work and find the paradoxes...

-Felicia

Subject: Bookstore shopping

Date: Thu, 02 April 1998 11:32 PM EST

From: Red sly567

Message-id: <1998040304320401.XAA14037@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Went to one of the local independent bookstores today for my regular critique

group, and after, decided to go over and cruise for another Auster book.

Have read NY Trilogy, and loved it.  They stock several, and I finally

decided on "Mr. Vertigo".  Am dying to get into it.  Interesting thing

though, there was a flyer under the copies of NY Trilogy.  It read as follows

"Have you ever wondered what it would take to change your life? 

You may be surprised how easy it can be...This book is not for the weak of

heart or mind - it will leave you feeling spooked! (and Duped)  Recommended

by Heather M, etc.  

I found this a wonderful complement to an excellent piece of work.

Subject: Re: Bookstore shopping

Date: Sat, 04 April 1998 07:02 AM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <1998040412020001.HAA28655@ladder03.news.aol.com>

thanks for spotting this. Heather is an acute reader. aren't good bookstores

treasures? 

centrator

Subject: Re: autotalking/Auster messageboard

Date: Sat, 04 April 1998 07:03 AM EST

From: Centrator

Message-id: <1998040412035800.HAA28775@ladder03.news.aol.com>

i must be missing something. who is sari? does she have a message posted that

I am missing. HALP!! thanks.

centrator

Subject: Auster is cool

Date: Sat, 11 April 1998 05:40 PM EDT

From: JamzSimp

Message-id: <1998041121401100.RAA12664@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Recently, I was introduced to Auster's work when LCos4M (Felicia) mentioned

him in passing. *New York Stories* is the first work I began to read, and am

currently nearly finished reading. I saw *Hand to Mouth* at the bookstore and

flipped through it, discovering that Auster was keen on the work of Beckett.

This moved me to wonder if Auster could be classed among existentialist

writers. He

references to people being there yet not being there, and anguish, seem to

confirm this. Yet, reading Auster, he (more overtly in *Ghosts*) seems to be

more of a post-structuralist fiction writer.

I do not know what this means exactly, but have ideas.

I seem to have picked up the idea (perhaps in one of these threads) that

Auster does not stray symbolically from the confines of the text. This seems,

oddly, elusive. It also seems oddly elusive. If anyone knows what I am

talking about, would you care to comment?

Thanks.

Eric Simpson

http://members.aol.com/jamzsimp/

Subject: Re: Auster is cool

Date: Fri, 17 April 1998 03:17 PM EDT

From: BStrongart

Message-id: <1998041719170900.PAA13733@ladder03.news.aol.com>

It is very hard to pin Auster down. But he is neither elusive nor is he

obvious. It is that his writing is so transparent, so evanescent, so facile

-- while at the same time he covers all without revelation. You are right to

compare him to Kosinsky, but his existentialism points to a peculiar,

singular direction. Without Einstein there is no Auster.   

Subject: interview

Date: Sat, 18 April 1998 01:20 PM EDT

From: SmileKoala

Message-id: <1998041817201400.NAA29059@ladder03.news.aol.com>

I am a high school student and I am interested in becoming a writer.  I need

to do an interview for a research project.  Would you please help me?

Thank-you.

Subject: Re: Auster is cool

Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 09:34 PM EDT

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <1998050301341600.VAA28403@ladder03.news.aol.com>

 What I love about Auster....Anything is possible.....

He tends to take things from one end of the spectrum to the other...or

perhaps turn it inside out.

Though it does bother me about some of his relationships in his books..like

in one chapter he is so emersed in a friendship and yet he can shed it like

an old raincoat the next chapter. I'm not sure I could do that. I mean I

imgine I could, but none the less Auster makes me think of the

possiblities...Anything can happen.

Peace,

Felicia

Subject:  interview (dream)

Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 09:46 PM EDT

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <1998050301461300.VAA29759@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Okay..so this isn't an Auster interview..but just think...would you as Paul

if you could corner him in a coffee shop somewhere? Or even a chatroom...

My first question....

1. Paul, tell me about your latest book. How did it come about? And are any

of your characters like you?

Okay so maybe that wasn't one question....

Wouldn't it be great to read an interview of his...if anyone knows..let me

know.

-Felicia

Subject: Re: MEMBERS ONLY AREA IS LIVE!!

Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 11:16 PM EDT

From: ROBOMONKEY

Message-id: <1998051503162700.XAA10059@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Who the hell is Paul Auster?

FASCISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN AMERIKA

          (r)obo.(c)om

Subject: um

Date: Sun, 07 June 1998 12:19 AM EDT

From: Spydr222

Message-id: <1998060704195300.AAA28742@ladder01.news.aol.com>

This board was empty, and I felt kinda sorry for it. 

That's all I really have to say.

 --Hannah     

"Inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. They live the poetry that they

cannot write. The others write the poetry they dare not realise." ~Oscar

Wilde 

Subject: Paul and the movies...

Date: Tue, 16 June 1998 08:41 AM EDT

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <1998061612414800.IAA11198@ladder03.news.aol.com>

I received an e-mail from Eric on something he had found about Paul's films.

We have to wonder now if Paul will be back to writing books or not.

 "I was just browsing through the internet movie database to see how progress

was coming along on my friend's film when I discovered that Paul Auster has

*already* directed two films! " Eric said in his letter. This was somthing I

didn't know either. "One is called Blue in the Face. And another film that he

wrote and directed is called Lulu on the Bridge, which was just completed on

May 15 of this year. I wonder if he will continue to write novels?"

Does anyone know about these films? Please Share! 

Thanks Eric. 

Remember these two movies:

BLUE IN THE FACE & LULU ON THE BRIDGE. 

- Felicia

Subject: Paul Auster

Date: Tue, 04 August 1998 05:38 PM EDT

From: Bob the R

Message-id: <1998080421385300.RAA10555@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Why is there a Paul Auster topic if there are no posts in that topic?  Was

SMOKE a great movie or what?  Watched it again for the umpteenth time last

night time.  Could watch/listen to Keitel and Hurt talk for hours.  And if

Keitel ever gets tired of acting in movies and on TV, he can pick up where

James Whitmore left off and go around the country telling stories; he is the

greatest, as is that movie.

Subject: What's Next

Date: Tue, 04 August 1998 05:39 PM EDT

From: Bob the R

Message-id: <1998080421393400.RAA10656@ladder03.news.aol.com>

When are we going to have another Auster movie?

Subject: Re: Paul Auster

Date: Thu, 13 August 1998 08:32 AM EDT

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <1998081312323700.IAA23279@ladder01.news.aol.com>

Bob- It's great you've got to see SMOKE  for the umpth teen time..But for us

midwesterns..there hasn't been a commercial or anything about this movie.

I guess that's what makes me angst the most about movie makers trying to keep

the artzy stuff on the east coast and the west coast. However, we have movie

makers here, too..but naturally they take their stuff to both coast to sale. 

Fortunately, I don't think I'll be in the NYC area anytime soon nor out west,

either. Guess I'll stay put...hope I find SMOKE  on video...  Sometimes

though, I do wonder if all those expensive suits think I'm not good enough to

watch their crap. Hopefully, they'll let Auster be the artist he is.

-Felicia

Subject: Re: Paul Auster

Date: Tue, 18 August 1998 04:47 PM EDT

From: GCarden498

Message-id: <1998081820475100.QAA00186@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Well, Felicia,

Why don't you check the Independent Film Channel and Sundance?  Both of them

have run "Smoke" several times.  I'm out here in the desolate, backward

mountains of western N.C. and I feel that as far as film is concerned, I

haven't missed a damned thing by not living in NY or L.A.  Of course, I'm

talking satellite dish.

Gary

Subject: City of Glass

Date: Sun, 23 August 1998 04:52 PM EDT

From: Lcos4M

Message-id: <1998082320523200.QAA05394@ladder03.news.aol.com>

THE GLASS CITY BY PAUL AUSTER

Stillman's best line:

"Humpty Dumpty: The purest embodiment of the human condition. Listen

carefully, sir. What is an egg? It is that which has not yet been born. A

paradox, is it not? For how can Humpty Dumpty be alive if he has not been

born? And yet, he is alive--make no mistake. We know that because he can

speak. More than that, he is a philosopher of language. 'When I use a word,'

Humpty Dumpty said, in  rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose

it to

mean---neither more nor less. The question is, said Alice, whether you can

make words mean so many different things. The question is, said Humpty

Dumpty, which is to be master--that's all."

Keep Reading,

Felicia

Subject: Re: City of Glass

Date: Tue, 22 September 1998 02:59 AM EDT

From: Hobart33

Message-id: <19980922025928.29943.00002965@ng133.aol.com>

Auster is definetly my favorite author. I would love to trade quotes, but my

books are currently in a storage facility.

My name is Hobart, that is not my real name.

Subject: moon palace

Date: Thu, 19 November 1998 10:04 AM EST

From: LynninNH

Message-id: <19981119100455.25773.00000058@ng150.aol.com>

i have just read Moon Palace by Paul Auster.  I loved this book somuch.  I

think he is one great story teller.  He took me on such a journey and I went

for the ride all the way.  I am now into Leviathon.  I am loving this one

also.  anyone out there read Auster?  If so lets talk.  I would love to have

a dialogue about him and his writing.  thanks lynninnh@aol.com

Subject: Re: moon palace

Date: Thu, 10 December 1998 12:37 AM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19981210003711.02051.00001371@ng53.aol.com>

Lynn: I have not been checking the Auster file for a long time. there used to

be about about a hundred postings. I am glad to see tha you have started one

agin. Yes, I think that Auster is a premeir writer . His writing is so

Austere. have you thought of that? He would approve as he is so interested in

chance, coincidence,  the dopleganger. 

Subject: Re: moon palace

Date: Thu, 10 December 1998 12:40 AM EST

From: Lingers

Message-id: <19981210004049.02051.00001373@ng53.aol.com>

Leviathan, eh? You are going to go thru all his books. Yes, it is a ride.

Keep going. I also get great rewards for William Wharton (Birdie, Dad, A

midnight Clear, Last Lovers) Unfortuanely he has stopped writing due to that

death of his daughter in a gruesome accident. Mike

Subject: Re: City of Glass

Date: Sun, 13 December 1998 11:19 PM EST

From: RollAction

Message-id: <19981213231909.07081.00005473@ng-ft1.aol.com>

>I've written an essay about how every sentence of the opening page of City

of

>Glass has a clearly definable dramatic purpose.  It's available at

>http://www.teleport.com/~bjscript/index.htm.

>

>I know I'm jumping in out of the blue.  I spend more time in the

>screenwriting folder and discovered Paul Auster through Smoke.

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Man, this is wild. cut Yesterday I watched Smoke and today I found this. cut

Got interrupted and lost my place now I'm back to read the rest of it. cut

More folders to read. cut  Cool hangout.  wrap

Julius Seizer  

I had cruel parents.  Get over it.

Subject: Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn...near me!  Are you folks jealous?

Date: Tue, 15 December 1998 04:37 PM EST

From: JSoto46233

Message-id: <19981215163717.21157.00003215@ng144.aol.com>

Paul's a great story teller, that line about his prose being austere is so,

so true.  I used it on a friend when I was describing THE MUSIC OF CHANCE;

which was a piece of fiction I discovered by accident one night while

watching PBS.  This strange movie came on with James Spader and Mandy

Patankin, I was enthralled...seeing that it was based on a novel, i naturally

picked the book up...instant fan...Auster deserves a

much bigger audience than he has in America; he's apparently big in

Europe/France...I'm sure there are many, many reasons for this that I don't

have the time to go into.  There's one book that I was reading on lunch hours

when I dashed in and out of the local Barnes & Noble that had me both

laughing and sympathizing, it's his autobiograph titled HAND TO MOUTH; you'll

see when you read this thing (I haven't had a chance to finish it) that this

man

succeeded despite himself...the book is very funny (at least to me).  And

"Smoke" is one of my all-time favorites...

Looking forward to discussing more about this terrific writer...

The world is peopled with morons and idiots and somehow I have placed my bid

to be King...-J. Soto '98  

Everything is knowable, given time and persistence...-J. Soto '98

Subject: Re: moon palace

Date: Tue, 15 December 1998 04:38 PM EST

From: JSoto46233

Message-id: <19981215163802.21157.00003217@ng144.aol.com>

go to the Paul Auster NG, there's more postings...

The world is peopled with morons and idiots and somehow I have placed my bid

to be King...-J. Soto '98  

Everything is knowable, given time and persistence...-J. Soto '98

Subject: Re: City of Glass

Date: Tue, 15 December 1998 04:38 PM EST

From: JSoto46233

Message-id: <19981215163858.21157.00003219@ng144.aol.com>

Very funny post...go to the Paul Auster Folder, there's a new

post...obviously it's from me...

The world is peopled with morons and idiots and somehow I have placed my bid

to be King...-J. Soto '98  

Everything is knowable, given time and persistence...-J. Soto '98

Subject: Paul lives in Brooklyn...near me....

Date: Mon, 19 July 1999 05:52 AM EDT

From: JSoto46233

Message-id: <19990719055252.24242.00000003@ng35.aol.com>

He's a much bigger writer in France and Europe than in the U.S., though he's

greatly respected here...anyone see the movie "Smoke"?

Subject: Re: Paul lives in Brooklyn...near me....

Date: Mon, 02 August 1999 03:20 PM EDT

From: WTNLori

Message-id: <19990802152013.03956.00001944@ng-fi1.aol.com>

>He's a much bigger writer in France and Europe than in the U.S., though he's

>greatly respected here...anyone see the movie "Smoke"?

Does anyone know how Paul got his own folder?

Lori Crews

  One on One for Writers 

Subject: Re: Paul lives in Brooklyn...near me....

Date: Fri, 20 August 1999 10:38 AM EDT

From: Roy9951

Message-id: <19990820103801.24609.00001456@ng-cl1.aol.com>

Why are you asking. Oh, never mind. Here's that answer.

"Paul" had nothing to do with it. There were a group of people here who

wanted to discuss Mr. Auster's work because he had achieved literary stature.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a

man who has signed a contract with his conscience and his sense of

duty--Chekhov

Subject: Re: Paul lives in Brooklyn...near me....

Date: Sun, 22 August 1999 11:59 AM EDT

From: WTNLori

Message-id: <19990822115946.24653.00001335@ng-ch1.aol.com>

>Why are you asking. Oh, never mind. Here's that answer.

>"Paul" had nothing to do with it. There were a group of people here who

>wanted to discuss Mr. Auster's work because he had achieved literary

stature.

What group of people?

Lori Crews

  One on One for Writers 

  

 

Subject: Re: Paul lives in Brooklyn...near me....

Date: Mon, 23 August 1999 05:11 PM EDT

From: Roy9951

Message-id: <19990823171108.00334.00002243@ng-co1.aol.com>

<<What group of people?>>

The group of people who liked talking Paul Auster and literature.  I don't

know how else to answer the question. Anyway, it looks like they're gone,

just like almost everyone else.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a

man who has signed a contract with his conscience and his sense of

duty--Chekhov