Influences

• Marco Vassi
  Susie Bright
  Doris Lessing

Favorite Books

• The Four Gated City
  Shikasta
  A Fine Balance
  A Suitable Boy
  Sabbaths Theater
  Lonesome Dove
  A Room of One's Own

Favorite Authors

• Doris Lessing
  Marge Piercy
  Phillip Roth
  Larry McMurtry
  Jane Austen
  These days I gravitate towards Asian writers--primarily Indian and Chinese.

What I'm Reading

• Girls Like Us: Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King
  The Picture of Dorian Gray (re-read)
  Time Bites, essays by Doris Lessing

Web Links

• Dirty Laundry
• Writing Out Loud