You asked, I answered.
People over the years ask me about my influences as a writer. I’ve never been sure it would do much good to list them or discuss them in detail, because the people who are asking would probably go to sleep somewhere in the middle. So I’m going to show them to you, and you can get back to me with any more in-depth questions you have. The Top Dogs The Pack The Dispersers Barth Beckett Brontë Mailer Miller Mitchell Ginsberg Heller Pynchon Steinbeck Thompson Updike I have other lists, but these should more than hold you till after I’m gone.