• New York Noir: From the Graphic Adaptation of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy

    Mystery, Murder and an Existential Search For Meaning and Purpose

    The following is from the graphic adaptation of award-winning novelist Paul Auster’s deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.

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    Excerpted from Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room by Paul Auster; Illustrated by Paul Karasik, Lorenzo Mattotti and David Mazzucchelli. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2025 by by Paul Auster; Illustrated by Paul Karasik, Lorenzo Mattotti and David Mazzucchelli.

    Paul Auster
    Paul Auster
    Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.







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