Don’t let the graphics and jokes mislead you. I’m a serious guy and a serious writer. I’m not trying to burn the house down. I’m trying to help rebuild what has already been burned down. I see myself as part of the continuum, a writer who is attempting to reach a future generation not yet born perhaps. And I carry the past with me as I do so.
Posted these at Afterpunk a couple years ago. It’s a real list of my influences. These are the ones I have studied and learned from as writers, even going so far as to try on their voices and/or rework their work in my own voice. Even the greats I criticize are great. I simply disagree with the human story many of them are writing. Their own talent is a proof against despair.
For now I’m just dropping their pics here. I’ll be referring to them as needed later.
Top Dogs
The Pack
Barth
Beckett
Brontë
Mailer
Miller
Mitchell
Ginsberg
Heller
Pynchon
Steinbeck
Thompson
Updike
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