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During the nearly thirty years he's lived in Brooklyn, Paul Auster has become one of the most respected novelists writing in America today. He's published over twenty books, including The New York Trilogy and The Brooklyn Follies as well as written and co-directed the films Smoke and Blue in the Face. His latest novel, Man in the Dark, deals with a retired book critic who battles his chronic insomnia by imagining a parallel universe where America is entangled in the midst of a civil war. We talked to Auster about the uncivil political war going on in the country right now, how the rest of the country sees our city as well as what his relationship is like with his previous characters. Tonight he'll be speaking at the NYPL (details).

One Ring Zero is an unusual Brooklyn band headed up by Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, with a troupe of musicians and lyricists filling out their ever-morphing sonic tribe. Their lyrics have been written by some familiar names: Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster and Dave Eggers are amongst them. This year they enter their 10th year of making music, and this Friday they'll be at Joe's Pub celebrating on stage. Join in on the party, you can buy tickets here.

MOVIE: Delve into the mind and life of H.L. “Doc” Humes (pictured) in a documentary by his daughter. Titled Doc, the 96-minute film focuses in on the counterculture icon. "In the 1950s and early '60s, Doc co-founded The Paris Review, wrote two acclaimed novels, and was a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London and New York. Doc was a 1950s NYC intellectual, a 60s free speech militant, and a 70s visionary crazy genius. His story is the story of decades of cultural history, a poignant personal long-strange-trip, and a fount of ever-relevant ideas." Tonight Immy Humes (filmmaker) will be at the 8pm screening, and tomorrow night she will be joined by Paul Auster. More info here.

A look at some noteworthy television this week:

THEATER: We like our comedy like we like our women: black and absurd. So it’s promising that the press release for a new play by Kevin Mandel uses those two irresistible words to describe A New Television Arrives, Finally. The strange story concerns “an American couple visited by a charismatic man presenting himself as a television set. Is the handsome stranger a charlatan or a guru?” Emmy award-winning actor Tom Pelphrey [Guiding Light] leads the cast at tonight’s premiere performance. - John Del Signore

MOVIE: One Ring Zero is a lit-rock fans dream come true. The band features Paul Auster, Jonathan Lethem, Dave Eggers and Margaret Atwood’s lyrics set to the music of trumpets, theremins, claviolas, and metallophones. Director Joe Pacheco captured the band on film and presents it now as a documentary, As Smart As They Are: The Author Project. Here's a song/video with lyrics by Michael Chabon:

Don't you just love that feeling of "discovering" a new artist that no one else knows about yet? The New Directors/New Films festival curated by the Film Society at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art's Film department have been keeping New Yorkers ahead of the cinema curve for 35 years now with their annual series. In the past they've showcased such newbies as Chantal Akerman, Pedro Almodóvar, Héctor Babenco, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Atom Egoyan, Nicole Holofcener, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, Tom Tykwer and Wim Wenders, so you know picking at random from even just one of the 26 films in the series could yield a new favorite .

DISCUSSION: Tonight Thurston Moore and Jim Jarmusch will have a little talk, titled "Transforming New York: Music and Film at Night". This is in conjunction with Doug Aitken's sleepwalkers, so Aitken will be there too, and the three discuss nighttime, just after the sun goes down.

Merry Gridlock to All, via our friends at No Land Grab.

While the most posh our hovel of an apartment has seen is the Dwell sample sale, our ex-boss registered at Moss; now, happily she (and you, presumably, after a date with your sugar daddy) can drink there, too. Centovini the newest venture from Moss and the people behind I Trulli and Vino is both a wine store and bar, open evenings and, soon, for breakfast and lunch (We can totally rationalize breakfast drinking, especially with the nostalgic, honest-to-God real writers like F train rider Paul Auster, though he never fooled himself into thinking that wine from a box counted. Also unsure if Murray Moss shares those aesthetics).

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We know it's cold outside, but trust us, this is a good week for literature (unlike last week, coughFREYcough). We've got some real fiction, some real non-fiction, and even a real memoir!

Don't get confused – today is Friday. Gothamist has been a bit under the weather, hence our little weekend movie preview showing up today rather than on its usual Thursday. And while we all anxiously count down the minutes until Monday's Golden Globes, there are a lot of great movie options available without even considering all the 2005 films hoping to take home a prize.

Dave Eggers and Paul Auster start a band...it sounds like the beginning of a joke. For better or worse, it's not. Joe Pacheco's documentary, As Smart As They Are: The Author Project documents how the McSweeney's in-house band, One Ring Zero, collaborated with some writers to make Lit Rock.

On Sundays, Gothamist publishes opinion pieces relevant to life in New York City. The opinions expressed in the book review below belong to Dio, a very well-read 23-year old, and not to Gothamist-- which should be obvious, since we only read magazines.

While celebrities and those "famous for being famous" mingled in their Manolos with the likes of us and our Dr. Scholls sandals, there was also art being bid on. We couldn't afford any, but if we could we may have put our money down on that photo to the left. Or, more realistically, that Cynthia Rowley dress we saw hanging on the wall. What can we say, seeing Karolina Kurkova up close made us want to dress better. And go to the gym. And curse our genes.

On Friday Gothamist went to check out Paul Auster and Billy Martin perform at Symphony Space in an event called (although Martin says his personal theme for the show was "The Music of Chance is Always Playing".) We walked into the space with no expectations and as we slid down in our seat, the lights dimmed and our minds opened to take in whatever we were about to see and hear. We like Auster's stories and Martin's music, but how were they going to combine the two, and would it work?

Gothamist was excited to hear about the collaboration of two New Yorkers we respect on different parts of the creative spectrum. Tonight musician Billy Martin (of Medeski, Martin & Wood) and author Paul Auster will join forces at the Thalia Theater for a performance guaranteed to be unlike any other. Martin will curate and lead a trio to accompany Auster in the reading of .

If Caroline Kennedy moves to Park Slope, what does that do to the neighborhood? Do you think she'd join the Food Co-Op? Here's the Corcoran guide to Park Slope (a Corcoran broker called "Prospect Park West" Brooklyn's "Central Park West"). NY Magazine's Park Slope profile.

Here's John Boorman's filmography. Hope and Glory came out in 1987, the same year as Empire of the Sun, which ostensibly is another World War II film with a young boy at the center. Gothamist has come to find Empire of the Sun one of Steven Spielberg's best works, something much more sweeping and majestic than originally thought. Check out Roger Ebert's reviews of Hope and Glory and Empire of the Sun. And we're looking forward to the U.S. release of the documentary, Gunner Palace, about soldiers at Uday Hussein's palace - it's been getting amazing buzz while at the Toronto Film Festival. Some other war movies: Dr. Strangelove, Das Boot, Ran, Grand Illusion, MASH and Three Kings.

For a while now Music For America has been providing us with endless amounts of entertainment, events and information.

Involver (media and entertainment activist community) and PEN (national organization of writers) present this Wednesday, August 4 at 7:00pm. An incredible lineup of literary legends convene to address contemporary political threats to freedom of expression.

It's NY magazine's SEXY (caps are ours) issue and we were excited to see our favorites, Paul Auster (sexy author), Anthony Bourdain (sexy chef - take that, Rocco!), and Amy Sedaris (sexy comedienne) on the list. The rest - eh; Harrison Ford's mid-life crisis is not sexy.

I woke up and just saw white outside. Then I got up and saw that the fog was relatively light - meaning that I could see buildings in New Jersey. The thin line of fog was pretty and atmospheric, and made me think of a noir movie or book or something by Paul Auster.

The news about the new film "Party Monster," which premiered at Sundance is especially big in NY, because it caused the downfall of a certain kind of club lifestyle. This predated the gansta rap bling-bling lifestyle. The Post gives a primer on the characters in the affair. Michael Musto's column from a year ago talks about it. And Michael Alig himself writes about prison. [J, 12pm]: This case was always of special interest to me because Paul Auster's son, Daniel, was in the apartment when the murder happened and eventually got 5 years probation for stealing some of the victim's possessions. The whole thing got a lot of play in Park Slope, but it's hard to find a trace of it in the news- although a Reuters article on the sentancing can be found at the bottom of this page.

There are a series of Paul Auster anecdotes that the Italian story reminds me of- the one below is from Smoke, but also comes up in the Red Notebook and a bunch of other places: Film Summary: Smoke PAUL: About twenty-five years ago a young man went skiing alone in the Alps. There was an avalanche. The snow swallowed him up, and his body was never recovered. His son was just a little boy at the time, but the years passed, and when he grew up, he became a skier, too. One day last winter, he went out by himself for a run down the mountain. He gets halfway to the bottom and then stops to eat his lunch next to a big rock. Just as he�s unwrapping his cheese sandwich, he looks down and sees a body right there at his feet--frozen in the ice. He bends down to take a closer look, and suddenly he feels that he�s looking into a mirror, that he�s looking at himself. there he is--dead--and the body is perfectly intact, like someone preserved in suspended animation. He gets down on all fours, looks right into the dead man�s face and realizes that he�s looking at his father. And the strange thing is that the father is younger than the son is now.

I've decided to write a Paul Auster book based on this story from Excite News: Man Found Dead 44 Years After 'Trip to U.S.'