Those series of coincidences that mark the narrative of the stories that make up The New York Trilogy are interconnected to one way or another with yet another piece of threat tying the stories together: the Double. Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt: The New York Trilogy is probably your most widely read book, principally, I think, because it breaks new ground through the unique combination of exploration, captivating story, and reflection that characterizes much of your work. Telling the story of Ray and Elizabeth Carney, who are trying to make an honest living on 125th Street, the novel chronicles the struggles that Ray lives through while trying to stay away from his criminal family. His novels explore the mysteries of the mind in such a way that their process can be shared from the inside by the reader," says Marie-Catherine Vacher, one of Auster's editors in France. Based on that premise, the 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada would likely represent the vast number of fashion students that land in New York in the hopes of making it to Fashion Week.

The harder it is to be pinned down on any idea, the easier it is to conceal that one has no ideas at all.Not many New York-based books feature Long Island as their primary setting—except for what is perhaps considered to be the New York novel par excellance, The Great Gatsby. And this boils down to the following syllogism: "I am an intelligent reader; therefore anyone who is also an intelligent reader will share my opinion of this book; anyone who doesn't share my opinion, therefore, isn't an intelligent reader. And then, he says with unembarrassed sentimentality, using a sentence that sounds like a line from one of his novels, "The great miracle happened, and everything changed. Blue's mentor in the PI world was Brown, and together, they're working for a paying client, a man named White, trying to figure out more intel for a case involving a man named Black who lives on—yes—Orange Street. First of all, the work spans three full decades—the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s,when a variety ofpersonalities, trends and historical facts developed in ways that still resonate within the borough today.

Fires, massacres, epidemics, riots, lynchings, bombings - New York's record is perhaps no worse than that of any other great city. This new edition - published in the US in 1995, the comic has taken a decade to cross the Atlantic - comes with an introduction by Art Spiegelman, who offers a few possible answers. Forse questi personaggi smarriti che si cercano per smarrirsi ancora di più, che perdono i riferimenti e li tolgono anche al lettore, alla fine m’hanno confuso e smarrito. In this story, the detective works closely with the author, Paul Auster, who may or may not be real; the character has a hard time remembering where the lines of reality are. Any references to narrative experimentation in his own work cause a drop in temperature: "I never experiment with anything in my books.Elizabeth Gilbert pens an entertaining story that is as much a love letter to New York as it is a manifest intended to relay the importance of the theater industry in shaping the town's cultural spirit. Even more to the point, perhaps, was the 2006 reissue adorned with magnificently lurid cover art in the style of classic 1940s pulp detective magazine covers. IBS: Even so, you experimented with literary convention, opened new possibilities in fiction, explored ideas. Como dice un personaje en “La habitación cerrada”: “Las historias sólo suceden a quienes son capaces de contarlas… las experiencias sólo se presentaban a quienes eran capaces de tenerlas. I have this loose policy that whenever I'm reading a book of fiction, I also read something non-fiction; and in this particular instance, "City of Glass" was counterbalanced by David Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach.

Escritores metidos a detectives y detectives que parecen escritores (no es una novela de detectives, sí de escritores) que en un momento de sus vidas se dan cuenta de que no son ellos quienes las dirigen y se rebelan de la mejor forma que pueden.The idea came to me of a book made up of three novellas, each one set at a different moment in New York's history.