The Red Notebook
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The Red Notebook is a collection of stories written by American
author Paul Auster
in four parts. The Red Notebook in 1992, Why Write? in 1995, Accident Report in 1999 and It Don't Mean a Thing in 2000. They are all true stories gathered from Auster's life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all one thing in common: the paradox of coincidence. Auster narrates things he writes about in his fiction, making us wonder if he's really telling us the truth. Implying that everything and everyone is somehow, mysteriously, connected to each other.
Auster tells us about the wrong number that inspired him to write City of Glass, about how he met his childhood hero Willie Mays
, but didn't have a pencil with him to get his autograph and how during all four flat tires of his life he had the same passenger in the car with him.
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author Paul Auster
Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
in four parts. The Red Notebook in 1992, Why Write? in 1995, Accident Report in 1999 and It Don't Mean a Thing in 2000. They are all true stories gathered from Auster's life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all one thing in common: the paradox of coincidence. Auster narrates things he writes about in his fiction, making us wonder if he's really telling us the truth. Implying that everything and everyone is somehow, mysteriously, connected to each other.
Auster tells us about the wrong number that inspired him to write City of Glass, about how he met his childhood hero Willie Mays
Willie Mays
Willie Howard Mays, Jr. is a retired American professional baseball player who played the majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets. Nicknamed The Say Hey Kid, Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his...
, but didn't have a pencil with him to get his autograph and how during all four flat tires of his life he had the same passenger in the car with him.