Murakami, Dybek, Agee, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Alice Munro, Bill Monroe, Paul McCartney, Stuart Duncan, Frank Conroy, John Reischman, Marilynne Robinson, my wife, my kids, my students
Favorite Books
They Came Like Swallows, A Death in the Family, Magic For Beginners, After the Quake, Gilead, Cattle Killing, Anna Karenina, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Lolita, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Coast of Chicago...
Favorite Authors
Murakami, Dybek, Agee, Munro, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Marilynne Robinson, Maxwell, Calvino, Kelly Link, Fitzgerald, Lorrie Moore, Jane Smiley...
What I'm Reading
Weird and Tragic Shores, by Chauncey Loomis;
Captain Francis Crozier, by Michael Smith;
Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions, by Sir John Franklin
