Influences

• My father and mother: Charles and Carmela, my sisters and brothers: Jim, Terry, Chuck, Grace, Tommy, Lisa, Tina, Donna; Grandma Catalano; Sister Ellen Dominic. Toni Morrison, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Proust, Aurore Dupin, John Kennedy Toole, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Erdrich, and Rabelais, among many others.

What I'm Reading

• A Confederacy of Dunces (for the 4th time); The Audacity of Hope; The Delivery Room

Web Links

• Camille Cusumano Home Page