The Red Notebook

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The Red Notebook is a collection of stories written by American author Paul Auster in four parts. The Red Notebook in 1992, Why Write? in 1995, Accident Report in 1999 and It Don't Mean a Thing in 2000. They are all true stories gathered from Auster's remarkable life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all one thing in common: They shed light on that magical power we call coincidence. Auster tells us the most incredible things, things we usually read about in his fiction, making us wonder if he's really telling us the truth. Implying that everything and everyone is somehow, mysteriously, connected to each other.

Auster tells us about the wrong number that inspired him to write City of Glass, about how he met his childhood hero Willie Mays, but didn't have a pencil with him to get his autograph and how during all four flat tires of his life he had the same passenger in the car with him.