Influences

• stories about people with unusual ambitions or bravery
  obscure history

Favorite Books

• Oryx and Crake
  Burger's Daughter
  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  Kafka on the Shore
  Cat's Eye
  The Savage Detectives
  Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man
  American Pastoral
  Mating
  Freddy and Fredericka

Favorite Authors

• Margaret Atwood
  Nadine Gordimer
  Michael Chabon
  Haruki Murakami
  Philip Roth
  Roberto Bolano
  Daniel Boyarin
  Norman Rush
  Mark Helprin

What I'm Reading

• "Prof," by Adrian Fort

Web Links

• War on the Margins