Full name: The Red Notebook: True Stories

Author: Paul Auster Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Short Stories, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780811214988 0811214982

Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic--that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room--all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling. Similar books: Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories, essays & memoir by Eudora Welty Advertisements For Myself by Norman Mailer The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins The Man Made of Words by N. Scott Momaday Cosmological Eye by Henry Miller City Life by Donald Barthelme The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving My Less Than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk