Episode 170: Novelist Spotlight #170: Remembering the great novelist Paul Auster and his electric imagination

Novelist Spotlight

In the spotlight is the late, great novelist Paul Auster and one of his friends and biographers, I.B. Siegumfeldt, who spent three years logging conversations between herself and Paul Auster and compiling those conversations into a book titled A LIFE IN WORDS — a wide-ranging dialogue between Auster and the Danish professor, in what has been called a “remarkably candid and sharply focused investigation” into Auster’s art, craft and life. In total, Paul Auster wrote more than 30 books, some translated into more than forty languages, as well as writing the screenplays for a selection of films.

We discuss:

>> The first sentence of his novels

>> His imaginative characters and storytelling

>> Work style

>> Popularity in Europe

>> The Paul Auster Research Library and The Paul Auster Society

>> His passion for and involvement in cinema

>> Etc.

Learn more about Paul Auster here: https://www.faber.co.uk/author/paul-auster

Learn more about I.B. “Gita” Siegumfeldt here: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/inge-birgitte-siegumfeldt

Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no
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