On the eve of the UK publication of my translation of Kafka’s diaries, an extract in The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/…

Fontaine Spherade des boules en acier de l’artiste Po Burry peintre sculpteur placée sur le parvis de la cour d’Orleans au cœur du Palais Royal .. 📸B.Fleurot 😍😎

'Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.'

Rainer Maria Rilke

🌿Si le monde n’était pas si beau, on risquerait tous de devenir cyniques.

Paul Auster

Paul Auster et Siri Hustvedt

“Never did two men ever judge identically about anything, and it is impossible to find two opinions which are exactly alike, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.”

— Montaigne (tr. M. A. Screech)

The Solitude of Invention

Paul Auster opens his front door.

Stacey Kors ✍🏽 about her fascinating conversation with Paul Auster in 2012 - they focused on his new memoir ‘Winter Journal’ • Columbia Magazine magazine.columbia.edu/article/solitu…

He had managed to keep his distance from reality, to avoid immersion in the thick of things.

Paul Auster • Invention of Loneliness

‘Again and again, I want to ask: What is it like to be alive? .. I believe that is my mission as a writer.’

Paul Auster

France Inter May 2024

l.franceinter.fr/4wu

‘Without a pen in my hand, I don't have the same thoughts.’

Paul Auster

Originally published in 2017, Paul Holdengraber is joined by Paul Auster on this episode of A Phone Call From Paul. They talk about revisiting childhood, the nature of the self, and why Auster is fascinated by what if’s. Listen in at 9:25 AM (PST) for more. dublab.com/schedule/10599…

'Time moved in two directions, for every step into the future contained a memory of the past.'

Paul Auster
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Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

Paul Auster, prolific storyteller, memoirist & screenwriter, adept at complex, ambiguous, often dreamlike narrative constructions, rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel.

The New York Times 📚 books | May 2024 nytimes.com/2024/04/30/boo…

‘In life, as in music, the pauses, the rests, make the melody more beautiful.’

Paul Auster
The Music Of Chance, 1990

Parental loneliness epidemic:

A broad majority of surveyed parents reported experiencing feelings of loneliness & unwanted isolation. They also reported burnout from daily demands. Many felt that they were under-supported.

Ohio U study, April 2024 medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-s…

‘Colour enables viewers to ‘bathe in a cosmic sensibility’ said Yves Klein. A passionate & deeply experimental artist ‘he helped to break down the division of art & life’ but he’s not yet fully understood says Dominique Levy who represents his work | 2024 artsy.net/article/artsy-…

Torrents of new data about the ancient human world are being unleashed due to advances in science & technology: we may soon have answers to questions we never knew to ask .. Jacob Mikanowski ✍🏽 in the Guardian | Feb 2024 theguardian.com/science/2024/f…

How can we better understand and represent the complex voices and stories of those experiencing loneliness?

Monash U, Sept 2023 medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-c…

Experiences of loneliness and of unwanted social isolation are linked to poor health & early death.

A broad push by policymakers & health officials around the 🌎 is addressing loneliness - not simply as a private struggle, but as a public health crisis.

science.org/content/articl…