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The New York Trilogy: Graphic Novel Might Surpass the Original Novels

The New York Trilogy: Graphic Novel Might Surpass the Original Novels

The late Paul Auster was a respected post-modernist author who frequently wrote New York as a state of mind, not so much a city but a mood, and his New York Trilogy, originally published in the 1980s, is a minor classic of experimental fiction The first book in the trilogy, City of Glass, was originally[...]
Twenty Years On, City Of Glass Is Still Avant-garde – Paul Auster, Art Spiegelman, Paul Karasik, and David Mazzucchelli In Conversation at Comic Arts Brooklyn

Twenty Years On, City Of Glass Is Still Avant-garde – Paul Auster, Art Spiegelman, Paul Karasik, and David Mazzucchelli In Conversation at Comic Arts Brooklyn

Bill Kartalopoulos moderated the panel (series editor for Best American Comics, Rebus Books) that also revealed for the first time some of the process notes and sketches that helped these creators tackle adaptation in radically imaginative ways. It may have surprised fans at the panel to learn that Paul Auster and Art Spiegelman are close friends,[...]