The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

Have finished the Patchett (The Magician's Assistant) and have moved on to Auster's The Brooklyn Follies. Auster is a writer I like continually, despite the distrust he seems to receive from various circles. I tend to respond to the strength of a well-told story, which, in his hands, often turns into something strange and rather perverse. I'm interested in that metamorphosis. You can see it in others (David Lynch, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami), but in Auster it's particularly interesting because of the efforts he exerts to make us think that's not what's happening. Anyway, the new book is good, for now.

Next: the story of two battling coffeemakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!