Siri Hustvedt was halfway through a new novel, about a writer tasked with completing his father’s unfinished manuscript, when her husband, the novelist Paul Auster, died from lung cancer. Continuing that story in his absence felt impossible. They were together for 43 years, the length of her career. She’d never published a book without his…
Shorouk Express A quote from the actual book was released as a teaser. It begins: “In prison, there is nothing to see, and nothing to do,” which does rather beg the question — what are you going to write 216 pages about? He adds that “silence … does not exist at La Santé [prison in…
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