{"value"=>"<p>The Correspondence series dates from 1970 to 2022 and holds incoming and outgoing correspondence from Auster's professional and personal life. Files may contain holograph and typescript drafts, letters, notes, postcards, faxes, email printouts, clippings, and other related material.</p> <p>Auster corresponded widely with many of his artistic peers. Prominent correspondents include writers John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Charles Bernstein, Yves Bonnefoy, Sophie Calle, Peter Carey, J.M. Coetzee, Clark Coolidge, Robert Coover, William Corbett, Robert Creeley, Don DeLillo, Andre du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin, David Grossman, Edmond Jabes, Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Howard Norman, Michael Ondaatje, George Oppen, Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, Orhan Pamuk, Charles Reznikoff, Philip Roth, Claude Royet-Journoud, Salman Rushdie, Lucy Sante, Charles Simic, and Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop; filmmakers Pedro Almodovar, John Boorman, Henning Carlsen, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Hal Hartley, Agnieszka Holland, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Leigh, Alexander Payne, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Wayne Wang, and Wim Wenders; actors Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Michael Imperioli, Ricky Jay, Harvey Keitel, Mandy Patinkin, and Vanessa Redgrave; musicians Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Robyn Hitchock, Jocelyn Pook, Lou Reed, and Tom Waits; artists John Baldessari, Paul Karasik, Sam Messer, Joan Mitchell, David Reed, and Art Spiegelman; highwire artist Philippe Petit; President of Israel, Shimon Peres; and Weather Underground member and childhood/college friend, Mark Rudd.</p> <p>The correspondence series addresses Auster's business dealings including his agent the Carol Mann Agency; various translators; and publishers such as Actes Sud, Alfred A. Knopf, Anagrama, Faber and Faber, Henry Holt, Penguin Books, Picador, Rowohlt Verlag, Seix Barral, and others.</p> <p>The series also holds fan mail, reader mail, and media requests; and correspondence on Auster's membership with the American Academy of Arts and Letters and PEN International.</p> <p>Filed at the end of the series is correspondence addressed to others about Auster, including Auster's wife, Siri Hustvedt, assistants, and editors.</p> <p>Some correspondence may be addressed to Auster and Hustvedt. A small amount of correspondence may be addressed to Auster and Lydia Davis.</p>"}