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Auster and the Paths Not Taken

  • Written by The Conversation

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I’d ran out lives on whichever extreme candy/maniac/heroes game I’d been playing. And, alas, the in-flight entertainment was the old-school variety where showtimes are fixed and waiting ten minutes feels prehistoric.

Fiddling with my phone I found Paul Auster’s Invisible among my music. Quite possibly on there, unlistened to,...

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