"Report from the interior" by Paul Auster

"In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts, and even the clouds had names.." Having recalled his life through the story of his body in Winter Journal, Paul Auster now remembers his development from within. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices in American life, Report from the Interior charts Auster's intellectual journey towards adulthood through the post war fifties and into the turbulent sixties.