Art Spiegelman wrote a foreword to the second printing.

An unknown voice on the telephone is begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster's ground-breaking Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.