Chance, fate and fiction: looking back at American novelist and filmmaker Paul Auster
Writers and Company
English - May 12, 2024 04:10 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 182 ratingsArts culture comedy news politics entrepreneurship interview health business leadership entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Paul Auster spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his novel Oracle Night, the ways in which reality and fiction blend and how coincidences shape our lives at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal in 2004. The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1, among many other books, was best known for his postmodernist fiction and meta-narratives. He died on April 30, 2024. He was 77.