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Paul Auster — A Short Memory

How the writer saved me — twice

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For a while in my twenties, I read nothing apart from Paul Auster. I started with The New York Trilogy, as people often do, and went headlong into Moon Palace, Leviathan, The Book of Illusions, Mr. Vertigo and the rest.

I was 27 and had been ploughing through the books of Steinbeck, Kerouac…