<DIV>An updated edition with six new essays, including "An Evening at Shea" and "Remembering Beckett," as well as two long interviews from "one of America's greats" (<I>Time Out Chicago</I>)</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>The celebrated author of <I>Invisible</I>, <I>The New York Trilogy</I>, and <I>The Book of Illusions </I>presents a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings (including the seminal work <I>The Invention of Solitude</I>), and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, <I>Collected Prose</I> records the passions and insights of a writer who "will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time" (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>).<BR></DIV>