Influences

• Ursula LeGuin, Bernard Malamud, Ethan Canin, Mark Helprin, Thomas Hardy, Sigrid Undset

Favorite Books

• Kristin Lavransdatter, To Kill A Mockingbird, American Pastoral, Patrimony, The Women's Room, The Return of the Native, The Group, Chocolates For Breakfast, Gidget, Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, October The First Is Too Late, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Childhood's End, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word for World is Forest, More Than Human, The Martian Chronicles, The Golden Bough, October Light, The Hebrew Goddess, Grendel, The World According To Garp, Mystery Ride, Are You Mine, Emperor of the Air, Ellis Island and other Stories, The Rosy Crucifixion, The Great Gatsby, The Orestes Trilogy, Paradise Lost, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Bernard Malamud, animal and medical essays, Conversations with Don Juan, Lady Chatterly's Lover, In Cold Blood, Elmer Gantry, Lolita, Ada, The Vagrants, Freeing Keiko, River Songs, Of Wolves and Men, Barry Lopez, The Blood of Strangers, Split: A Memoir of Divorce, Sophie's Choice, Jared Carter - Work, for the Night is Coming, The Four Quartets, Henderson The Rain King, Herzog

Favorite Authors

• Philip Roth, John Gardner, Ursula Le Guin, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Ethan Canin, Mark Helprin, Sigrid Undset

What I'm Reading

• Involuntary Madness, The Air We Breathe and Blue Blook

Web Links

• Oregon Literary Review
• Etude
• Adam Bacher's blog
• InTheFray
• InTheFray