Influences

• 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
  Notes from Underground
  The Possessed (aka Demons)
  In the Labyrinth
  The Portrait of a Lady
  Count Julian
  Juan the Landless

Favorite Authors

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  Henry James
  Marcel Proust
  Samuel Beckett
  Thomas Bernhard
  Juan Goytisolo
  John Donne
  T.S. Eliot
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Charles Baudelaire

What I'm Reading

• Alban Berg: The Master of the Smallest Link, by Theodore W. Adorno
  The Cambridge Companion to Berg
  The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914, by Philip Blom

Web Links

• Caveat Lector