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What a fine list to be on, the list of most shoplifted authors: Jack Kerouac, Bill Burroughs, Charlie Bukowski, and Paul Auster. That’s cult status. From an article in Columbia College Today.

An occasional shoplifting problem has made some booksellers keep Auster’s works behind the counter

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and a bookstore manager commented on NPR that The New York Trilogy was the most frequently filched Auster novel, including one incident where a stack of 20 copies was taken in one fell swoop.

Auster is one of my favorite authors, though I came fairly late to the game. I started with Oracle Night (which is a crappy title, but it’s a great book), and then did The Book of Illusions, then the New York Trilogy and Leviathan. Don’t worry, I’ll read the rest.