Paul Auster, Brooklyn’s postmodernist par excellence, dies at 77
Auster has been called many things: "the most meta of metafictional writers," "the patron saint of literary Brooklyn," a "literary superstar."
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Auster has been called many things: "the most meta of metafictional writers," "the patron saint of literary Brooklyn," a "literary superstar."
"Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist."
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
"This is the final victory of the censor: when people cease to be able to imagine a non-censorious society."
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.