Episode
The Book Club: Siri Hustvedt
- Podcast
- Best of the Spectator
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- May 27, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2321
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Summary
Sam Leith's guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Siri Hustvedt, talking about her new book, Ghost Stories, a memoir of her long and loving marriage to the novelist Paul Auster, and of his death from cancer. Siri tells me why this book ‘needed’ to be written, what their relationship was like, how ‘horrible things’ came to this literary golden couple, and how she explains the experience of being visited, three days after his death, by her husband’s ghost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.