In this poignant and intellectually sweeping episode of The Creative Process , celebrated writer Siri Hustvedt opens up about the loss of her husband of 43 years, the legendary novelist Paul Auster. Delving into her new memoir, Ghost Stories, she explores the disorientation of grief, framing it as a particular kind of unrequited love. Hustvedt maps the emotional and physiological toll of loss, drawing parallels to the phantom limb phenomenon discussed by the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty.
