The pain that the sun rises again day after day, unmoved, even after the death of a unique, loved one, does not fit well with the automatisms of the digital public, its relentless self-righteousness. When news of the death of New Yorker writer Paul Auster broke this week, private social media users appeared to be just as prepared to post their RIPs as professional media were to post their obituaries online. Auster and his wife, the writer Siri Hustvedt, and his daughter, the musician Sophie Auster, spoke publicly about his serious cancer from March 2023.
Widow Siri Hustvedt on the death of Paul Auster – Culture
