Siri Hustvedt to write a book about her late husband Paul Auster

The American writer is 120 pages into a memoir about her relationship with the New York Trilogy author, entitled Ghost StoriesSiri Hustvedt has revealed that she is working on a memoir about her late husband, Paul Auster, author of the acclaimed New York Trilogy.The news was first reported in Zeit Online, where Hustvedt said in an interview that “a few days after Paul’s death” she started writing a memoir about him. “It’s called Ghost Stories. I have 120 pages now,” she told the German news website, adding that writing about Auster was her “first impulse” after he died. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2024-10-17 14:41:02 UTC ]
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