Paul Auster

Turkey, Where Islam Seeks Balance With Western World

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Video, Turkey, Turkey Middle East, Turkey Western World, Paul Auster, Turkish Foreign Policy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey Press Freedom, Turkey Prime Minister Erdogan, Ap, Syria, World News

ISTANBUL (AP) — For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, a brash visionary who propelled his country to re...

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PHOTOS: Complex's Guide to Artistic Nepotism

Joy Yoon | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Complex.com, Nepotism, Joy Yoon, Paul McCartney, Stella McCartney, Terry Jones, Jason Schwartzman, Albert Maysles, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Sophie Auster, Carine Roitfeld, Rebekah Maysles, John De Menil, Olympia Le-Tan, Pierre Le-Tan, Nicolas Cage, Dominique De Menil, Philip Maysles, Francis Ford Coppola, Dash Snow, Paul Auster, Futura, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Matt Jones, Slidepollajax, Maxwell Snow, Tricia Jones, Sara Maysles, Mels Crouwel, Sofia Coppola, Wim-Crouwel, Complex Magazine, Arts News

Hollywood is notorious for its nepotistic tendencies and keeping it all in the family (example: Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith) there are a few other humdingers out there that will make you go hmm...

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Finding the Souls of Politicians Through the Books They Read

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: A Gift Upon the Shore, A Lesson Before Dying, Walter Mosley, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Books, The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, Caleb?S Crossing, Ernest J. Gaines, Hannah Coulter, A Christmas Carol, Charles DickensThe Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, E.M. Forster, Poltician, Man in the Dark, Wendell Berry, Paul Auster, Geraldine Brooks, Nadine Gordimer, Howards End, Burger?S Daughter, Rick Perry, Indignation Philip Roth, Reading, W.K. Wren, Books News

he question of whether a politician reads at all is a good one, and should be asked and answered more often. But the question of which books a politician has loved throughout his or her lifetime must be asked and answered.

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PHOTOS: 9 Great Graphic Novel Adaptations

Andrew Losowsky | Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Paul Auster, Comics, Robert Crumb, The Book of Genesis, Graphic Novel, Fahrenheit 451, Slidepollajax, Skottie Young, Graphic Novels, Allen Ginsberg, Adaptations, Kite Runner, Seymour Chwast, Books News

Books are turned into movies all the time, but increasingly, they are also getting the graphic novel treatment.

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The 5 Most Frequently Stolen Books From Bookstores

blogs.publishersweekly.com | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Women, On the Road, Stolen Books, Paul Auster, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, The New York Trilogy, Martin Amis, Most Stolen Books, William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Bookstores, Books News

Yesterday, historian and author Barry H. Landau was arrested on charges of stealing historical documents, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln, fr...

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Advantage: Keynes?

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Economics, Keynesian Economics, John Maynard Keynes, Paul Auster, Germany, Austerity, Business News

If you want to know what is going to happen next to your investments, the job and housing markets, and more generally to the economy, you may want to follow what is happening to the ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynes argued that when economies are sputtering, the government must increase deficits, because its increased expenditures will stimulate the economy to better growth. But what happens when our leaders don't realize the economy is sputtering, and uncork the champagne early?

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Audio Walking Tours With Contemporary Literature As Your Guide

fsgworkinprogress.com | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: The Hours, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Cunningham, Americana, Paul Auster, Freedom, Electric Literature, Audio Walking Tour, Do Delillo, New York, Sunset Park, Books News

There’s a passage in Don DeLillo’s Americana where he describes walking down a busy sidewalk among a throng of New Yorkers. He captured this feeli...

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How Well Do You Know The Brooklyn Literary Scene? Take This Quiz To Find Out

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Chua, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman, New York, Brooklyn Literary Scene, Paul Auster, Brooklyn, Mos Def, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Novelist Jonathan Lethem took a shot at New York's fashionably bookish borough this weekend, telling the LA Times that Brooklyn has become "repulsive ...

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Fictional Novels Starring Non-Fictional Authors

flavorwire.com | Stephanie Hlywak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, City of Glass, David Foster Wallace, Lunar Park, Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, The Pale King, Jonathan Ames, The Alcoholic, Books News

Authors often appear in their own works of fiction as thinly veiled surrogates -- Kilgore Trout is widely believed to be Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, an...

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Japan's Top Lit Translator Comes to NYC: Gangster Fables

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Motoyuki Shibata, Michael Caine, John Boorman, Kinji Fukasaku, Paul Auster, Lee Marvin, Seijun Suzuki, Jacques Becker, Asia Society, Haruki Murakami, Kinokuniya, Japan, Translation, Lino Ventura, Gangster Fables, Takeshi Kitano, Books News

I'll have the pleasure of doing a bilingual reading on Thurs. Dec. 9 in New York with my good friend Motoyuki Shibata who is visiting from Japan. We...

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Paul Auster On Book Reviews

WSJ | Steven Kurutz | Posted 05.25.2011

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One that that has changed, though, is Auster's relationship to critics. "I've learned not to look at reviews," he said. "Early on I did, I was always ...

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'Sunset Park': Paul Auster Tackles Another Brooklyn Neighborhood

AP | MICHAEL ASTOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Auster Prospect Park, Paul Auster, NY Culture, Paul Auster Brooklyn, Books, Writing, New York News

"Sunset Park" (A Frances Coady Book/Henry Holt, $25), by Paul Auster. Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood is home to thriving communities of Mexican a...

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HuffPost Readers' Picks: 15 Books You Read Over The Weekend And Loved (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Huffpost, Rick Moody, Dominick Dunne, David Foster Wallace, Literary Prizes, Readers Picks, Bestsellers, Huffpo Picks, Paul Auster, National Book Award, Peter Carey, Jules Verne, HUnger Games, Jill McCorkle, Around the World, Books News

We asked you, whether by tweeting or Facebook , to tell us what books gave your weekend that little special something. From classics to current bestse...

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David Grossman Gets Over-The-Top Blurbs For New Book From Nicole Krauss, Paul Auster

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Grossman to the End of the Land, Paul Auster, Blurbs, Book Blurbs, David Grossman, Books, Nicole Krauss, To the End of the Land, Books News

David Grossman is a much-garlanded author and his latest novel sounds extremely interesting. The story of an Israeli mother, Ora, who sets out for a h...

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Israeli Author Amos Oz Wins Prize At Italian Book Fair Despite Call For Cultural Boycott Of Israel

Israel News | Saviona Mane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Turin International Book Fair, Amoz Oz, Paul Auster, Literary Prizes, Israel, Italy Book Fair, Books, Carlos Fuentes, Books News

Israeli author Amos Oz yesterday received the reader's prize at the Turin International Book Fair, despite calls from Italian academics for an academi...

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Literary Events In Your Neighborhood

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Events, Book Signings, Literary Events, Books, Author Events, Book Events, Author Readings, Authors, Paul Auster, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Sedaris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

There are so many fantastic book-related events happening every day in many cities, from book signings to author readings to poetry competitions and m...

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No Time to Read? Go Short

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Kurt Vonnegut, Reading, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Leo Tolstoy, Book Groups, Book a Day, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Reading All Day, Books, Christmas Carol, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.

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Pitch Black - Paul Auster's Man in the Dark

Adrienne Celt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, Literature of War, Man in the Dark, Psychological Novel, Book Review, Huffpost Books, Paul Auster, New Books, Entertainment News

Paul Auster's new novel, Man in the Dark, steps into the dizzying tapestry of individual human consciousness and dances there.

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