awful
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
Ugh
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
Yeah. The details surrounding it are fucking awful too but not anything I could/would share. Just unimaginably tragic.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
And now the man himself.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:33 (one month ago) link
As always with Auster, profound coincidences:
Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall pic.twitter.com/9G98p0hTM1— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) May 1, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
It’s weird to me that all the obits describe him as the literary avatar of Brooklyn. I’ve only read a handful of his books but Brooklyn as setting or theme is not something that I would point to.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:16 (one month ago) link
It’s kind of superficial, but I think Smoke and Blue in the Face, combined with his physical presence in Park Slope, tie him to Brooklyn. I mean, Blue in the Face was practically a tourism-board sponsored film, emerging at the same time as Brooklyn Brewing and the rise of Williamsburg and all those things that made it acceptable for a maturing consumer to live there.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:34 (one month ago) link
I’ve never heard of those movies but that makes sense.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:39 (one month ago) link
I don't remember much about Music of Chance (something to do with trimming hedges, or I might be getting it confused with The Restraint of Beasts?) but I definitely remember the brutal ending.
New York Stories is "a good one, a boring one, a confusing one"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:25 (one month ago) link
Ah OK now I get some of the IG stories I was seeing last night. I'm still so angry at his son. Sucks though. RIP.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:47 (one month ago) link
Never specifically thought of him as Brooklyn, more just NYC. When I think Brooklyn writers, I think Jonathan Lethem.
Anyway, RIP. In my college and post-college years, Auster loomed very large for me. I eventually found him a bit repetitive, but City of Glass remains all time for me. I should reread.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:58 (one month ago) link