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culture is riven with division? well, my guest today is the great american novelist, new york resident, paul auster. if america is experiencing a culture war, is he ready to fight? paul auster, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s a pleasure to be in your home, your writing study is just below us, the floor below. just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside yourfront door? does it affect your writing? well, it depends on what you mean. if there is a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration, and i might go out and see what s going on. but if there is a distant war going on in another place and i know about it, i m not going to read about it while i m doing my work for the day. but i certainly will inform myself about it later. you talk of distant wars. i m thinking of wars much closer to home. you write a lot about your take on american politics. you ve talked about your feelings thr ....
welcome to hardtalk from new york. i m stephen sackur. this city has always had an outsize influence on american culture. the buzz in this nation comes from right here in terms of the arts, entertainment, publishing, the media, but what happens in new york when america s political culture is riven with division? well, my guest today is the great american novelist, new york resident, paul auster. if america is experiencing a culture war, is he ready to fight? paul auster, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a pleasure to be in your home, your writing study is just below us, the floor below. just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside yourfront door? does it affect your writing? well, it depends on what you mean. if there s a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration, and i might go out and see what s going on. but if there s a distant war going on in another place and i know about i ....
plus, she was one of five people who died during the insurrection. tonight roseanne boylan s six-month descent into conspiracy theories and how she became an american radical. and new reporting on the number of people potentially exposed to covid during trump s deception and some really important news about why you need a booster shot, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a big development today in donald trump s ongoing quest to turn the republican party into a vehicle for his own authoritarian aspirations. of course, the former president continues to exert this power over the republican party with a litmus test he created for republican politicians after his ignominious defeat. and the question, the single question they must answer is did they support his attempted coup? and would they support a coup in the future? and if the answer is no to either question, they re in trouble. we re seeing this again today. now donald trump h ....
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from new york. i m stephen sackur. this city has always had an outsize influence on american culture. the buzz in this nation comes from right here in terms of the arts, entertainment, publishing, the media, but what happens in new york when america had s political culture is riven with division? well, my guest today is the great american novelist, new york resident, paul auster. if america is experiencing a culture war, is he ready to fight? paul auster, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s a pleasure to be in your home, your writing study is just below us, the floor below. just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside yourfront door? does it affect your writing? well, it depends on what you mean. if there is a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration, and i might go out and see what s going on. but if there is a distant war going on in ....
positions that germany takes as it goes into the future. i m samantha simmons in london, also coming up. swiss voters have overwhelmingly backed same sex marriage, bringing the country into line with most of western europe. church in lipoma collapses after being engulfed in a river of love as the spanish island s volcano continues its destruction. all the latest sports news is lewis hamilton becomes the first formula one driver in history to chalk up 100 race wins after winning the russian grand prix. you are watching bbc news. hello, i m russ adkins life with you from berlin where the german elections appear to have their own up close to appear to have their own up close to a dead heat, making it decidedly unclear who is going to form the next coalition government here. the voting may have taken place in september, but somewhere, warning that it could take until christmas and began before germans know exactly what this new coalition will be, we won t know the new chanc ....