the world in a window Wood thinks he's bogus: "Although there are things to admire in Auster’s fiction, the prose is never one of them" Give us 15 minutes of your time, and we will give you everything that matters in the world. Full Article at The Browser

Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. Full Article at The New Yorker

Relatively early in Paul Austers new novel, one of its narrators says that any writer who feels he is standing on safe ground is unlikely to produce anything of value. Full Article at Chicago Sun-Times

Riffle through the novels of Paul Auster and you will see how steadily a sense of irreality imposes itself. His oeuvre is replete with writers, who may create characters only to suffer confusions of identity with them. Full Article at Los Angeles Times

Paul Auster, 62, has just published his fifteenth novel: the well-received, extra-broody, sibling-sexy Invisible. Full Article at New York Magazine

Throughout his career, Paul Auster has invented puzzle-box novels where the puzzle is less in the plot, which often seems to bore him slightly, and more in the construction of the novel itself. Full Article at The A.V. Club

To judge from the titles of some of his recent novels — The Book of Illusions, Oracle Night, Man in the Dark, and now Invisible — Paul Auster's fiction is receding, Samuel Beckett style, into non-existence. Full Article at The Phoenix

INVISIBLE. Paul Auster. Holt. 320 pages. $25. In Paul Auster's world, everybody writes. And those who don't write want to. Not surprising, then, that his latest novel is riddled with word-workers. Full Article at Miami Herald

AS soon as you finish Paul Auster's "Invisible" you want to read it again. Full Article at Shanghai Daily

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf... Full Article at China Post

Paul Auster has created what amounts to his own, self-referential fictional world over the years, and Invisible is packed with typical Auster tropes. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Paul Auster is associated with two things, both in constant flux: the novel and New York City. Full Article at Big Think

As soon as you finish Paul Auster’s “Invisible” you want to read it again. Full Article at The New York Times

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Visits to Austerland require mental agility. Unsurprisingly, his latest novel, a bristling thriller with a 'did he do it?’ spur to the narrative, quickly swirls into a familiar existential vortex. Full Article at The Telegraph

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Paul Auster reads from and discusses his new novel, “Invisible,” with John Freeman, the editor of Granta. (The PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main St. , at Water St. , Brooklyn. 718-666-3049. Nov. 12 at 7.) The poet reads from his work. Full Article at The New Yorker

In 1967, promising undergrad Adam Walker meets the mysterious Rudolf Born. Born gives the aspiring poet money to start a literary magazine, then practically arranges for him to sleep with Born's sophisticated French girlfriend. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

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