While the Carol Mann Agency did not provide additional details, Auster wasdiagnosed with cancerin 2022.

I like the tremendous diversity.

I like listening to people talk.

Paul Auster attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Paul Auster.Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images

I like watching them argue.

I like the amazing, funny things people say.

Starting in the mid-’90s, Auster also moved into filmmaking.

A star-studded follow-up,Blue in the Face, came just a few months later.

“Watching Paul I have understood what grace under pressure looks like,” Hustvedt wrote last August.

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