by Paul Auster
The world keeps throwing up its surprises. We keep learning.
Yours fraternally,
John
ALSO BY PAUL AUSTER
The Invention of Solitude
The New York Trilogy
In the Country of Last Things
Moon Palace
The Music of Chance
Leviathan
Mr. Vertigo
Smoke & Blue in the Face
Hand to Mouth
Lulu on the Bridge
Timbuktu
The Book of Illusions
Collected Poems
The Red Notebook
Oracle Night
Collected Prose
The Brooklyn Follies
Travels in the Scriptorium
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Man in the Dark
Invisible
Sunset Park
Winter Journal
ALSO BY J. M. COETZEE
Dusklands
In the Heart of the Country
Waiting for the Barbarians
Life & Times of Michael K
Foe
White Writing
Age of Iron
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews
The Master of Petersburg
Giving Offense
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
The Lives of Animals
Disgrace
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986–1999
Youth
Elizabeth Costello
Slow Man
Inner Workings
Diary of a Bad Year
Summertime
* e-mail to Siri Hustvedt (Auster’s wife)
* e-mail to Siri Hustvedt
* A letter that went astray and didn’t reach Auster, which accounts for his failure to answer it.
* Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984).
* From the Dictionary of English Slang.