Paul Auster's A Life in Words--a wide-ranging dialogue between Auster
and the Danish professor I. B. Siegumfeldt--is a remarkably candid and
sharply focused investigation into one writer's art, craft, and life. It
includes many revelations that have never been shared before. This is a
book that's full of surprises, composed of spoken words that sometimes
jump off the page like good drama.
The conversations between Auster and Siegumfeldt went on for three
years, starting in 2011 and continuing after there was a complete draft
in revisions. All twenty-one of Auster's narrative works are covered, as
well as all the themes and obsessions that drive the work, and the man.