As he prepares to grow old, Brooklyn’s Paul Auster delivers a ‘Winter Journal’
If there is any novelist in recent years who is synonymous with Brooklyn, it’s Paul Auster.
He settled in the borough in 1980, before it became a trendy international brand, entering the public eye in 1995 as screenwriter of the Harvey Keitel film “Smoke,” which takes place in a cigar shop on the corner of 16th Street and Prospect Park West in Windsor Terrace.
Several of Auster’s books have Brooklyn titles, such as “The Brooklyn Follies,” about the return of a cancer survivor to his native Park Slope; and “Sunset Park,” about a group of young squatters who take up residence in an abandoned house across from Green-Wood Cemetery.