Influences

• Raymond Chandler
  Ernest Hemingway
  John Steinbeck
  Dashiell Hammett
  Tennessee Williams
  Cornell Woolrich

Favorite Books

• Farewell, My Lovely (all Chandler, but this is a personal favorite)
  The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key
  Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure
  Grapes of Wrath
  Nightmare Alley
  A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's short stories
  Brave New World
  The Great Gatsby
  Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and the rest of Jane Austen
  The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  We, the Living
  David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House
  Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders
  Priest
  The Aeneid
  The Iliad
  The Odyssey
  Paradise Lost
  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
  The works of Catullus
  and many more ...

Favorite Authors

• Raymond Chandler
  Dashiell Hammett
  Cornell Woolrich
  Thomas Hardy
  Tennessee Williams
  Jane Austen
  Ernest Hemingway
  John Steinbeck
  Aldous Huxley
  Shakespeare
  Virgil
  Homer
  Catullus
  Daniel Defoe
  Charles Dickens
  The Bronte Sisters
  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  and many more ...

What I'm Reading

• The Battle for Spain, Antony Beevor

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