Get ready to have space "smile" back at you Friday morning, April 25. Sort of. Saturn and Venus will be visible above a crescent moon, similar to a smiley face, about 30 minutes before sunrise.

Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New ...