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From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective & noir fiction. Over twenty years after the release of the first adapted volume, the second & third volumes will finally be available in their long-awaited comic form. A conversation with Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the three adaptations, followed by a signing.
PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited & will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Can't attend? Order your signed copy here. (please specify that you would like it signed in the comments box at checkout).
In 1994, Paul Auster's City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel & became an immediate cult classic, published in over 30 editions worldwide, excerpted in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Fiction. But City of Glass was only the first novel in a series of books, Auster's acclaimed New York Trilogy, & graphic novel readers have been waiting for years for the other two tales to be translated into comics.
Now the wait is over.
The New York Trilogy is post-modern literature disguised as Noir fiction where language is the prime suspect. An interpration of detective & mystery fiction, each book explores various philosophical themes. In City of Glass, an author of detective fiction investigates a murder & descends into madness. Ghosts features a private eye named Blue, trailing a man named Black, for a client called White. This too ends with the protagonist's downfall. And in The Locked Room, another author is experiencing writer's block, & hopes to brake it by solving the disappearance of his childhood friend. The second two parts of this trilogy will be appearing in this volume for the very first time as a graphic novel.
Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the three adaptations, art directed all three books. City of Glass is illustrated by the award-winning cartoonist David Mazzucchielli, the second volume, Ghosts, is illustrated by New Yorker cover artist, Lorenzo Mattotti, & The Locked Room is adapted & drawn by Karasik himself. These adaptations take Auster's sophisticated wordplay & translate it into comicsplay: both highbrow & lowbrow & immensely fun reading.
Two-time Eisner Award winner Paul Karasik began his career as the Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly's RAW magazine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, & The New Yorker.
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