**The expanded edition of an essential collection of writings, essays, and interviews from Paul Auster, one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.** The celebrated author of *The New York Trilogy* , *The Book of Illusions* , and *4 3 2 1* presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including his breathtaking memoir ( *Financial Times* ), *The Invention of Solitude*. 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, *Collected Prose* records the passions and insights of a writer who will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time ( *San Francisco Chronicle* ).