New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Peter Savaiano as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories from online literary magazines, which can be read for free over the Internet on the magazines' websites. The
“The collected writings of Joe Brainard” introduction by Paul Auster & Ron Padgett editor “Known during his life primarily as an artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942–1994) was also a wonderful writer whose one-of -a-kind autobiographical work I Remember (“a completely original book”—Edmund White) has had a wide and growing
“Hand to mouth: a chronicle of early failure” by Paul Auster “Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be published, and to make enough money to survive. Leaving high school with “itchy feet” and refusing to
Article on the occasion of the exhibition "Revolution! The Atlantic Word Reborn" at the New York Historical Society. Article by ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA in Babelia on 18/02/2012. Read in full in the library's paper edition (web version not available). Review of "The Sunset Limited" by Cormac McCarthy. Article by JOSE MARIA GUELBENZU in Babelia on
Article about the photographer Weegee on the occasion of the exhibition “Weege: Murder is My Business” at the International Center of Photography in NY. Article by ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA in Babelia on 04/02/2012. Read complete. Review of "Winter Diary" by Paul Auster. Article by JAVIER APARICIO MAYDEU in Babelia on 04/02/2012. Read complete. review on
“Oracle night” by Paul Auster “Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank
* Museum reflection in relation to two New York exhibitions: “Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time” at the Whitney Museum and “Abstract Expressionist New York” at MOMA. Article by ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA published in Babelia on 04/11/2010. Read complete. * Review of "Look at the Little Bird" by Kurt Vonnegut. Article by JOSE MARIA
* Article on William Faulkner in connection with the author's avalanche of newly published titles. Article by ELSA FERNÁNDEZ-SANTOS published in El País on 18/11/2010. Read complete. * Reflection on Saul Bellow in relation to the recent English edition of his Letters. Article by ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA published in Babelia on
“The music of chance” by Paul Auster “The Music of Chance is a strange, haunting parable from the pen of Paul Auster, one of America's contemporary authors. In 1993 the novel was made into a movie that, I think, is far more known than the book itself. Jim Nashe has taken to the wide-open
“The invention of solitude” by Paul Auster “In “the book of memory” the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, “A”, contemplates his separation from him from his son from him, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of story-telling and writing. Extracted from the cover of the issue. See also: http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-solitude.html http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster The selected titles are