This trilogy and his many works since then (including In the Country of Last Words, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo, Moon Palace, and others) have been translated into numerous languages and have brought him further world attention. Auster’s trilogy broke ground in its mix of serious fictional techniques and detective and mystery genres. Geoffrey O’Brien of _The Village Voice wrote: "The New York Trilogy _are novels of desire: the desire to write a detective novel, to read one, to -inhabit it. . . . By turning the mystery novel inside out, Auster may have -initiated a whole new round of storytelling." This new edition will delight readers and collectors of Auster’s work.

Paul Auster’s novels include Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, and In the Country of Last Things, as well as two memoirs, a collection of essays, a volume of poems, and the screenplays for several films.

Luc Sante is best known for his first book, Low Life. He has also written introductions to books by Georges Simenon, Jacob Riis, and many other authors.

Art Spiegelman is a cartoonist who first came to attention in the early 1980s with a magazine he edited called Raw. Maus, his graphic novel about the Holocaust, won him the Pulitzer Prize, and his most recent book is In the Shadow of No Towers.