TALKING TO STRANGERS

Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prizefinalist Paul Auster.

"Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader, and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. I have spent my life in conversations with people I have never seen, with people I will never know, and I hope to continue until the day I stop breathing. It is the only job I've ever wanted." Those are the words with which Paul Auster concluded his 2006 Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature acceptance speech.

Now, more than ten years later, they serve as the inspiration for the title of his latest project, TALKING TO STRANGERS: Selected Essays, Prefaces, And Other Writings. This is the legacy volume chosen by Paul Auster to represent the best of his collected nonfiction over the past 40 years including speeches, op-eds, prefaces, and essays from 1967-2017.

PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.