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A quick memory of Paul Auster: novelist, screenwriter, and... game designer?
A quick memory of the novelist Paul Auster who has died aged 77.
Two books stick with me though: Moon Palace, which I think is the classic Auster, compact and roving, curious and distinctly miserable in spots, wildly inventive yet moving, somehow, within tight rules imposed by the author prior to writing. I never played the game because I didn't want to destroy the book, but there's a lot of stuff in Hand to Mouth about Auster's attempt to sell it, going to Toy Fairs and experimenting with the then-cutting edge tech of colour Xerox. "With the woman's blunt pronouncement still ringing in my ears, I hung up the phone, put the cards away, and stopped thinking about them forever."
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