Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979-2012

From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster’s nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude.

Paul Auster spent his fifty-year writing career examining what it means to be truly alive. And in Groundwork, a self-curated collection, Auster stitches together various autobiographical writings to lay bare the trajectory of both his personal life and sense of self.

From his breakout memoir, The Invention of Solitude, which...