Influences

• Starting out, Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Chandler. Currently, Joan Didion and Janet Malcolm -- and Will Cuppy for the footnotes.

Favorite Books

• A Man With a Maid (vol 1-3); Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees; Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, The Recognitions.

Favorite Authors

• Aside from "Influences," Flannery O'Connor, A.J. Liebling, and Elmore Leonard.

What I'm Reading

• Chast. Theories of Everything; Goldfein. The Black Wife; Vollman. Europe Central; Hernandez. The Death of Speedy (2nd time); Beford. A Visit to Don Octavio; DeMott, ed. First of the Year: 2009..