'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts'. Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in 'Winter Journal', Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. 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 of American life, 'Report from the Interior' charts Auster's moral, political and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the turbulent 1960s.