Auster and Stone Reader

19 Mar 2004

The blog “Notes from Classy’s Kitchen” recently cited my essay on Stone Reader.

ClassyDee makes the interesting assertion that the documentary about the search for author Dow Mossman — who wrote one well-reviewed book and then basically disappeared — sounds like a novel by Paul Auster: “Like in Auster’s book(s) it unfolds as an obsessed search for something, an elusive bit of Americana, a search for the creator of some obscure but significant cultural artifact.” Now why didn’t I think of that?

Posted by Culture Snob on Friday, March 19, 2004.

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