Paul Auster: Invisible

Adam Walker is a 20 year-old undergrad at Columbia University who’s greatest ambitions are to become a poet and avoid the draft. It’s 1967. Walker’s literary ambitions are derailed shortly after meeting a visiting professor from Paris and his alluring girlfriend. Then things go terribly wrong.

A murder, revenge, growing obsessions and madness, and even the taboo subject of incest -- or maybe not. It’s difficult to tell what really happens since Adam is the protagonist of Invisible, a new novel by Paul Auster, which comes out today.

Auster has shown himself to be a master of literary illusions.

Invisible picks up on themes running through previous works like he New York Trilogy, Leviathan and Moon Palace. Invisible walks the thin lines between authorship and truth; imagination and memory.

Paul Auster joins us now from his home in Brooklyn.