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Chance, fate and fiction: looking back at American novelist and filmmaker Paul Auster
Chance, fate and fiction: looking back at American novelist and filmmaker Paul Auster
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56 minutes
Released:
May 12, 2024
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Podcast episode
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Paul Auster spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his novel Oracle Night, the ways in which reality and fiction blend and how coincidences shape our lives at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal in 2004. The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1, among many other books, was best known for his postmodernist fiction and meta-narratives. He died on April 30, 2024. He was 77.
Released:
May 12, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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A virtuoso of the short story, Lydia Davis's work is surprising and memorable: Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction." Her 2007 short story collection, Varieties of Disturbance, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Davis's newest title, Our Strangers, contains 144 short stories in 300 pages. Lydia Davis spoke to Eleanor Wachtel on stage at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. *This interview originally aired June 10, 2007. by Writers and Company