Novelist Paul Auster addresses US gun violence in new book
New York (AFP) - The popular US novelist Paul Auster is turning his sights on America's epidemic of gun violence in a hard-hitting, 100-page essay that features photos from mass shootings. "Bloodbath Nation" (Grove Press) is due to be published on Tuesday in the United States. The writing in this new work by Auster, 75, is terse and somber and is accompanied by pictures taken by photographer Spencer Ostrander. Auster says one of the reasons he is writing it is a family secret that was kept from him until he was a young man. "The truth comes down to this: on January 23, 1919," he writes in the......
Jan 10, 2023