To do something for the pure pleasure and beauty of doing it.

—Paul Auster

The best interviewer to be on stage, with the recently passed Paul Auster…if you haven’t seen Holdengräber with Werner Herzog, or Mike Tyson, or countless others, dive into the archives, and enjoy…

R.I.P. Paul Auster.

'If nothing else, the years have taught me this: if there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it.' In a piece from 1995, Auster answers the question 'why write?'

newyorker.com/magazine/1995/…

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

Paul Auster

Vila-Matas with Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster, longtime friends and interlocutors 🖤

'Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn't happen in another.'
- Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

It's May Day, the opening of the month which in medieval literature is the most magical time of the year - a season for love, fairies, and marvellous dreams aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-may-…

'When miri and hot is the day,
And oway beth winter schours,
And everi feld is ful of flours...'

PAUL AUSTER, R. I. P.

“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: one day, the black will swallow the red.”
~ Mark Rothko

#Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival marking the beginning of #summer
'Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

Love expired 30 years ago today.

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

safe travels

May Day, as celebration, as assertion of solidarity, as distress call seems to summarize this moment.

The sun came back over the Forest, bringing the scent of May. All the streams of the Forest were tinkling happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again and the little pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the things they had done. ~A.A.Milne #MayDay2024

Lily-of-the-valley is the birth flower of May. A legend tells of a nightingale’s enduring love for this flower, each year returning in May to sing to his belovéd, & ceasing when her flowers fade. For this reason the lily-of-the-valley symbolises the ‘return of happiness’. #MayDay

Bonjour. ☕️🥐😊

Kees Scherer.
La jeune fille au muguet
1950. Paris
#1erMai

« La clé de notre salut : c’est de devenir les maîtres des mots que nous prononçons, de forcer le langage à répondre à nos besoins. »

Paul Auster
1947 - 2024

Cela fut. Ce ne sera jamais plus. Se souvenir.

Paul Auster • L'invention de la solitude (Le livre de la mémoire)

Mi biblioteca está presidida por cuatro escritores que me han marcado de diversas maneras: Paul Auster, Joseph Brodsky, Julio Cortázar y Sam Shepard. Ahora Auster se ha sumado a sus tres colegas para seguir la conversación literaria en otra parte.

Ludovic Carème.
Paul Auster
1998. Paris. Agence VU

⚫ Paul Auster : nostalgie new-yorkaise

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