Influences

• A. Alvarez, Saul Bellow, Joan Didion, Susan Griffin, Elaine Scarry, Susan Sontag, Robert Stone, Simone Weil

Favorite Books

• Lolita, Pale Fire-- Vladimir Nabokov
  Bleak House-- Charles Dickens
  Ulysses -- James Joyce
  V, Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
  Valis -- Philip K. Dick
  Bad Behavior, Veronica -- Mary Gaitskill
  Madame Bovary-- Gustave Flaubert
  Collected Stories-- Anton Chekhov
  A Chorus of Stones-- Susan Griffin
  The Body in Pain -- Elaine Scarry
  Waiting for God -- Simone Weil
  The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony -- Roberto Colasso

Favorite Authors

• Vladimir Nabokov
  Anton Chekhov
  Charles Dickens
  James Joyce
  Thomas Pynchon
  Mary Gaitskill
  Samuel Beckett
  Denis Johnson
  Don DeLillo
  Philip K. Dick

What I'm Reading

• This Republic of Suffering -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  Tree of Smoke -- Denis Johnson

Web Links

• Author Blog: "A Nest of Thorns"
• Hachette Book Group