Siri Hustvedt talks to Razia Iqbal

Writer Siri Hustvedt discusses her most personal work yet, an intimate meditation on love and grief about the 40 years she spent with her husband, the late writer Paul Auster. Speaking to broadcaster Razia Iqbal, Hustvedt discusses Ghost Stories, which weaves together journal entries she wrote between Auster’s lung cancer diagnosis and his funeral, emails they exchanged during his cancer treatment, and three love letters she wrote when Auster briefly left her to return to his first wife and son.

The book also contains Auster’s last ever piece of writing: the first 35 pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to his and Hustvedt’s grandson, born just months before his death.