"Merely a best-selling author in these parts, a rock star in Paris."
1 May 2024 at 15:22
Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York writers of his generation, died of complications from lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening. He was 77. [NY Times; ungated]
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Le grand Γ©crivain amΓ©ricain Paul Auster, auteur de Β« Moon Palace Β» et Β« LΓ©viathan Β», est mort Γ 77 ans [Le Monde; ungated] Paul Auster's New York Tragedy "an appraisal" by Lucy Sante [New York Times; ungated] Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 [Grauniad; ungated] 'A literary voice for the ages': Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more [Grauniad; ungated] Paul Auster, a life in images [El Pais; ungated] Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World? [LitHub] The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age [LitHub] "Scribe" [LitHub]