Writing A Life: Siri Hustvedt on Paul Auster

How do you write a life across time? In very different ways, Nicholas Boggs and Siri Hustvedt take up that question through two major literary figures: Boggs through newly uncovered archival material in his biography of James Baldwin, Hustvedt through the intimate, hybrid form of memoir and portrait in writing about Paul Auster. One works outward from letters, documents, and historical record; the other from shared life, memory, and the strange doubleness of writing about someone both publicly known and privately loved. A conversation about biography, the archive, the instability of memory, and the challenge of turning a life into narrative.

Deep Water Literary Festival
Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge St., Narrowsburg, NY
June 21, 1-2pm, $15 (in person)