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adam75241's review against another edition
3.0
Auster is undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of our time. I particularly love his novels, and though his other writings are incredible good, I lost interest in many of the topics in this collection. For instance, the section of prefaces without their accompanying works, in addition to some of the essays on specific writers, really bored me, and I skipped some of them after the first paragraph. But even so, Auster's craft outshined many of the topics I found uninteresting. My favorite in this collection was "The Death of Sir Walter Raleigh." Some really great standout quotes in this one, too.
adamz24's review against another edition
3.0
Collects The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, The Red Notebook, The Story of My Typewriter, a short NYC living guide thing, various critical essays, prefaces, occasion essays, and two interviews.
This is the only place where most of these critical writings, essays, prefaces, and interviews are collected, so this volume is well worth buying. It's economical, too, as it contains within it four independently published books in addition to all the other stuff.
This is the only place where most of these critical writings, essays, prefaces, and interviews are collected, so this volume is well worth buying. It's economical, too, as it contains within it four independently published books in addition to all the other stuff.
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