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Every book, in order, with what it is and where it sits. One page per work, plus chapter guides, characters, themes and endings where the demand is there.
Three short novels, one volume, one method run three times: a man is hired to watch another man and loses himself in the watching. The book most readers mean when they say Paul Auster.
Read the guide →Sun & Moon Press1985A detective novel that loses its detective. The first book of The New York Trilogy, and the shortest route into everything Auster went on to write.
Read the guide →Sun & Moon Press1986A detective novel with the detective story scraped off. The second book of The New York Trilogy, and the leanest test of the method Auster built in the first.
Read the guide →Sun & Moon Press1986The third and final book of The New York Trilogy, and the one that turns to face the other two. People a reader can believe in, and an ending that actually closes.
Read the guide →Catalogue in progress. 4 of 34 titles published; the rest ship at 15–25 pages a month, per the phasing in the content plan.