Influences

• Joyce Carol Oates
  
  Ethan Canin
  Stewart O'Nan
  Michael Chabon

Favorite Books

• The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner, Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, Mating by Norman Rush, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan, Zazie dans le Metro by Raymond Queneau, Shipwreck Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Cruddy by Lynda Barry.

Favorite Authors

• All of the above as well as TC Boyle, Rick Bass, Lorrie Moore, Tom Perrota, Adam Haslett, Steven Millhauser, David Foster Wallace and Christopher Tilghman.

What I'm Reading

• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James and the latest issue of One Story.

Web Links

• Dorene O'Brien's web site, Voices
• Detroit Noir
• Wayne State University Press