Siri Hustvedt
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220 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 22 May
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Thank you for having me.
Yes, so...
It was four days after my 26th birthday.
I was living in New York.
I was a graduate student at Columbia.
And I went to a poetry reading to hear a poet, Anne Lauterbach, a poet I admire, still admire.
And I went with a friend.
After the reading, we left the 92nd Street Y, and right inside the exit, I see this absolutely beautiful man leaning against the wall, a little hunched over in a leather jacket with either a little cigar or a cigarette between his fingers.
I can't remember.
And I said to my friend,
do you you don't know who that is do you and he said yes that's Paul Auster the poet and I thought poet oh my god even better not only is he great to look at but he's a poet and I was writing poetry at the time and you know in graduate school and I said introduce us right now and he did and we all took a cab downtown to some literary party after
the reading, and I just stuck to him.
Basically, I just imposed myself on this very handsome man.
And we talked, and then we kept talking.
We went out.
It was into the night.
And I did have, certainly those first hours, I thought, this guy is just not interested in me.
I worked my butt off to impress him.
We talked a lot about books and I do not remember what books.
I think it must have been a lot of poetry.
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