Chekhov's Mistress
A Bento Box of Paul Auster Quotes
The Financial Times’ Craig Offman takes Paul Auster, the “literary godfather of Brooklyn” out to a casual ($33.14 for two bento boxes and green tea) lunch at Inaka Sushi House. Here are a few quotes from the interview:
On making movies: “I just went into a corner and cried,” he says, “and I hadn’t cried like that since I was a kid.”
On being more popular in France than in the U.S: “American literary culture is just different”
On underappreciated US authors, such as Australian expat Peter Carey: “His last book, My Life as a Fake, is one of the most exhilarating books I’ve read in a long time, and it bombed.”
On an author he doesn’t like, Jorge Louis Borges: “There’s something desiccated about it.”
On being the most shoplifted novelist in New York, along with Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs: “We all just happen to be at the beginning of the alphabet”
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: February 12, 2005
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