where the writers are

Favorite Books

Kristin Lavransdatter, To Kill A Mockingbird, American Pastoral, Patrimony, The Women's Room, The Return of the Native, The Group, Chocolates For Breakfast, Gidget, Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, October The First Is Too Late, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Childhood's End, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word for World is Forest, More Than Human, The Martian Chronicles, The Golden Bough, October Light, The Hebrew Goddess, Grendel, The World According To Garp, Mystery Ride, Are You Mine, Emperor of the Air, Ellis Island and other Stories, Ted Hughes, Falling Apart In One Piece, The Red Book - Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, W.B. Yeats, The Glass Castle, Astro Turf, Lost Cat - Mary Gaitskill, The Rosy Crucifixion, The Great Gatsby, The Orestes Trilogy, Paradise Lost, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Bernard Malamud, animal and medical essays, Conversations with Don Juan, Lady Chatterly's Lover, In Cold Blood, Elmer Gantry, Lolita, Ada, The Vagrants, Freeing Keiko, River Songs, Of Wolves and Men, Barry Lopez, Moby Dick, The Blood of Strangers, Split: A Memoir of Divorce, Sophie's Choice, Jared Carter - Work, for the Night is Coming, The Four Quartets, Henderson The Rain King, Herzog, Don Quixote, James Salter, Light Years, The Bloody Chamber, The Boys of My Youth, The Magus, The English Patient, Daniel Martin, Women In Love, Thomas Hardy, Tinkers, Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Lois Gould, Such Good Friends, Memoir of a Prom Queen, A Single Man, Revolutionary Road, Big Fish - Daniel Wallace, Howard Nemerov, Yalom, William Matthews, Eamon Grennan, Daphne Du Maurier, Niko Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek and The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, Stephen Dunn, George Eliot - Silas Marner and Middlemarch, Abraham Verghese - Cutting For Stone

What I'm Reading

A stack of books on my nightstand.

Favorite Authors

Philip Roth, John Gardner, Ursula Le Guin, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Ethan Canin, Mark Helprin, Sigrid Undset, Robert Boswell, Abraham Verghese, James Salter; I have an extensive list of favorite books and authors above, in no particular order except for the first and second choices. I expect I'll add more as time goes by.

Influences

Ursula LeGuin, Bernard Malamud, Ethan Canin, Mark Helprin, Thomas Hardy, Sigrid Undset, James Salter, Jo Ann Beard, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth