Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)

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.