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The number-one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of Smile, Drama, and Sisters comes to Symphony Space with her latest graphic novel, Ghosts. Two sisters move to a new town only to learn that it's haunted - and the time of year when ghosts reunite with their loved ones is fast approaching!

Als er im Sterben lag, sagte Paul Auster seiner Frau, er wolle ein Geist werden. Und das ist er für Siri Hustvedt geworden: eine allzeit spürbare Präsenz, schmerzlich und tröstlich zugleich. Sie trägt seine Jacke, sie meint seine Zigarillos im Haus zu riechen, sie liest seine Bücher von neuem. Und zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit liest sie ihre eigenen Liebesbriefe, vom Beginn einer gemeinsamen Geschichte, die 43 Jahre währen sollte. Mit ihrem beispiellosen Trauer-, Gedächtnis- und Liebesbuch nähert sie sich dem unmöglichen Wunsch, Paul zu neuem Leben zu erwecken.

"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls "The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors...

There is a theater superstition that if the emptied house is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have left. In this eloquent and moving memoir, celebrated New York Times drama critic and columnist Frank Rich reveals how theater became a beacon of security for him as a child. As he struggled with his parent's divorce, Rich found his way in a tumultuous world, transformed by the magic of Broadway.

In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.

Ghost of the Hardy Boys is a fascinating, funny, and always charming look back at a vanished era of journalism, writing, and book publishing. It is for anyone who's curious about solving the mystery of the fascinating man behind one of the most widely read and enduring children's book series in history.