I grew up near the Atlantic seaboard and in the farm country of eastern Pennsylvania and the high deserts of Mexico, immersing myself in Russian fiction, English poetry, and the music of Wagner, Be
Russian fiction (Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Chekhov), the nouveau roman (Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Simon), Samuel Beckett, Juan Goytisolo, Thomas Bernhardt, surrealist novels (De Chirico, Leonora Carrington), the fiction of Miguel de Unamuno and Jean-Paul Sartre; the poetry of Donne, Shelley, Keats, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop; the philosophical writings of Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, Sartre, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Walter Kaufmann.
Favorite Books
In Search of Lost Time
Under the Volcano
Crime and Punishment
The Possessed
In the Labyrinth
The Golden Bowl
The Magic Mountain
Count Julian
Juan the Landless
Favorite Authors
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Henry James
Marcel Proust
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Bernhardt
Juan Goytisolo
John Donne
T.S. Eliot
What I'm Reading
The Fear of Losing Eurydice, by Julieta Campos
A History of Philosophy: Vol. 1, Greece and Rome, by Frederick Copleston
Jean Santeuil, by Marcel Proust
Flowering Judas and Other Stories, by Katherine Anne Porter
