On a foggy day, during the enactment of a reverie, author Paul Auster ( The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, Invisible ) sits down with me and turns the tables on interview conventions. The author interviews the reader. Auster: Ed, I feel I may call you that. Any reader who’s re-read a book of mine three times in the past seven years deserves to have his name abbreviated. So Ed, why did you decide to read The New York Trilogy for the third time recently when ten million new books are being published each month? Ed: Mr Auster, you may call me anything you want, but I shall call you ‘Mr Auster’ out of respect and reverence. A ( laughs ): Fair enough. E: To answer your question… I’m a broken record. I get stuck in a groove and keep playing the same chorus. Your books tend to amplify that tendency in me. Besides, there’s something in the third book, The Locked Room , which resonates with me. ‘Resonate’ doesn’t begin to cover it. When I read the words, it’s l...