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Books, authors and readers: a day at the Lisbon Book Fair

In Lisbon, June is about more than the popular saints’ festivities: it is also the month when Parque Eduardo VII turns into the country’s biggest bookshop. Ninety-six years after its first edition in 1930, the Book Fair still draws huge crowds. We went to find out why.

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Siri Hustvedt’s powerful memoir of losing her husband Paul Auster will make you cry

“Divested of others, what exactly is a self?” This question occurs halfway through Siri Hustvedt’s extraordinary new grief memoir, Ghost Stories. By my reading, it propels the whole book.

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Five Great Reads: Siri Hustvedt looks into death’s abyss, Melissa Lucashenko on ‘white man’s fantasy’, and why we need the tooth fairy

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt review – life after Paul Auster

What’s it like to lose your partner of more than 40 years? The novelist and essayist reflects on going from ‘we’ to ‘I’

The Guardian - UK

Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come

Sketched in cinematic black and white, this illustrated interpretation of the late author’s postmodern detective novel is a ‘stone-cold masterpiece’

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Siri Hustvedt to write a book about her late husband Paul Auster

The American writer is 120 pages into a memoir about her relationship with the New York Trilogy author, entitled Ghost Stories

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The big picture: author Paul Auster in his element

The celebrated writer, who died last week, is captured by Arnold Newman in his study in 1993 with his trusty Olympia manual typewriter

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Five Great Reads: how to write a novel, live without drinking and repair a violin

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Dua Lipa says she wants her new album to provide 'happiness and optimism'

In this edition of arts24, we hear from British pop star Dua Lipa on her much-anticipated new record "Radical Optimism", we remember rock star writer Paul Auster and we visit the Paris Louvre as one of its most famous works returns after a six-month facelift.

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Paul Auster obituary

Author of The New York Trilogy who conjured up a world of wonder and happenstance, miracle and catastrophe

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First Thing: Police move in on pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA

LAPD action at University of California, Los Angeles marks latest flashpoint in mounting tensions on US college campuses. Plus, Arizona senate passes repeal of 1864 abortion ban

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Renowned Author And Filmmaker Paul Auster Passes Away At 77

Remembering the prolific writer and filmmaker Paul Auster, known for his innovative narratives and impactful contributions to literature and cinema.

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Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation

Witnessing ‘murder by the gods’ as a child drove the novelist’s work, which used postmodern playfulness to delight readers

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‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more

The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work

France 24

The rock star status of US writer Paul Auster in France

FRANCE 24's culture editor Eve Jackson tells us about the life and work of US writer Paul Auster, who has died aged 77. Best known for "The New York Trilogy" mystery novels, Auster wrote more than 30 books that were translated into 40 languages. He had a particularly big following…

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‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’: Paul Auster – a life in quotes

The author of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 has died at the age of 77. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his life

International Business Times

US Novelist Paul Auster Dies Aged 77

Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist whose works included "The New York Trilogy," has died of complications from lung cancer, a friend of the novelist told AFP. He was 77.

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Bestselling novelist Paul Auster, author of 'The New York Trilogy,' dies at 77

A leading figure in his generation of postmodern American writers, Auster wrote more than 20 novels, including City of Glass, Sunset Park, 4 3 2 1 and The Brooklyn Follies.

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Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77

The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer

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Shadow Lines by Nicholas Royle review – buried treasure between the pages

The author’s avid hunt for notes and ephemera secreted in secondhand editions is warm-hearted and infectiously funny

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Baumgartner by Paul Auster review – love, ageing and loss

Auster’s alter-ego reflects on the mind-body problem and his much-missed wife in this slyly self-referential novel

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‘This might be the last thing I ever write’: Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure

As he was finishing his latest novel, the writer became seriously ill. He talks about making sense of his life through fiction, the secret of sustaining love and how his new book took him by surprise

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Baumgartner by Paul Auster review – amiable aimlessness

The celebrated writer’s new novel, about a widowed septuagenarian, opens strongly but can’t resolve the vast number of threads it starts to spin

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‘I’m not worried about fame or glory’: Lydia Davis, the author who has refused to sell her book on Amazon

The award-winning short story writer talks about her boycott of the world’s biggest marketplace, her love of languages and living with Paul Auster in Paris

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