American author Paul Auster made his name with pacy, noirish novels about lonely writers, outsiders and down-and-outers. Now he's tackling America's epidemic of gun violence in an impassioned account of the slaughter of innocents in schools, malls, clubs and churches. The 75-year-old author with the soulful, sunken eyes gained cult status in the 1980s and 1990s with his "New York Trilogy" of metaphysical mysteries and his hip film "Smoke", about ...