BAAS members with an interest in American literature are invited to join the international Paul Auster Society. The PAS is a non-profit organization dedicated to the global study of the oeuvre of Paul Auster. The author’s articulate multi-form collection of verbal and visual material has enchanted readers and challenged scholars around the world for over four decades, often beyond literary studies. For this reason, the Society approaches Auster’s novels, short stories, non-fiction, poems, films, essays, autobiographical and biographical works and translations as participants in a broader ethics of public engagement and cultural advocacy, which can provoke discussion on important contemporary concerns.

Through conference meetings, through workshops and seminars, and through its engagement with the Paul Auster Library , the Paul Auster Society encourages communication among scholars and the general public by expanding the possibilities for shared responses to Auster’s work. Membership is free, and entitles members to receive the twice-yearly newsletter about new publications, events and opportunities. If you wish to join, please send an email to Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt at the University of Copenhagen (siegum@hum.ku.dk) and to the current Chair of the PAS, James Peacock (j.h.peacock@keele.ac.uk).