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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.

The Conversation

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’

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Magaluf is quietly becoming Spain’s most cultural getaway

The party destination is shedding its hedonistic image for something more refined, discovers Hannah Williams

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Penis envy, the Oedipus complex and authentic paths to meaning: 25 writers, from Siri Hustvedt to Colm Toibin, reflect on Freud’s legacy

One of the more appealing customs of psychoanalysis is that analysts must be analysed. If you are going to put others on the couch you should lie on it first yourself. That way your psychic wrinkles can be identified – maybe even ironed out – before you are let loose…

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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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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud review – the shrink’s shrink engagingly examined by Siri Hustvedt, Susie Boyt and others

Authors reassess the legacy of the father of psychotherapy in a lovely grab bag of essays

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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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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

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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

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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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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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‘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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‘This was his revenge on art’: is Marcel Duchamp’s greatest work a fake?

‘Fountain’, by the father of conceptualism, is seen as a pinnacle of 20th-century art – but new evidence casts doubt on its authorship

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Salman Rushdie: writers gather in New York to read author’s works in solidarity

Event organized by Pen America champions freedom to write after novelist survived assassination attempt last week

The Conversation

Feminist stories and dangerous bodies: Siri Hustvedt in conversation with Julienne van Loon

I first discovered Siri Hustvedt through her best known novel, What I Loved (2003), which caught my attention through Janet Burroway’s review in the New York Times: “that rare thing: a page turner at full intellectual stretch”.

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