Siri Hustvedt, writer: ‘I’d like to go to my grave with a little whiff of Paul Auster’s smoke’

Fate, that force that so suffuses the fiction of Paul Auster (Newark, New Jersey, 1947 – Brooklyn, New York, 2024) resulted in a strange journey back to where she started for writer Siri Hustvedt (Northfield, Minnesota, 1955) on this hot Wednesday morning. She is seated in a room at Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes cultural center, speaking with EL PAÍS about her latest book Ghost Stories, a moving text dedicated to the memory of her husband and to the mourning that followed his loss when he fell victim to cancer.
