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Article: How do you introduce Paul Auster in three minutes? (Paul Auster/Danilo Kis)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- March 22, 1994
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Delivered at a public reading by Auster and Don DeLillo, 92nd Street
Y, New York, NY, November 1990
If your weakness is high-stakes poker, and if you find yourself in a smoky Manhattan apartment at 11:00 P.M. as three games are forming, and if you value your car and your couch, do not sit at that table where Paul Auster is innocently cutting cards. Just don't. I'll tell you why.
In his beautiful and prophetic essay "The Art of Hunger," written twenty years ago, Auster quotes Samuel Beckett and, in doing so, defines his own leitmotif: "What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art. It only means that there will ...