Ryan Day

About Me

I was born in Oklahoma and grew up mostly in Chicago. I live in Spain where I teach writing at the University and run a writer's cafe.

Why do you write?

Any favorite authors? Books?

Favorite authors: John Fowles, Quim Monzo, Jeanette Winterson, Italo Calvino, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Julio Cortazar, Stuart Dybek, Raymond Carver, Kafka, Fitzgerald, Salinger, Jonathon Letham, Roberto Bolaño, Donald Barthelme, Paul Auster, Colson Whitehead, Shakespeare, Denis Johnson, Margaret Drabble, Haruki Murakami, Milan Kundera, David Mitchell, Camus, Fernando Pessoa...
Favorite Books/plays: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, El Mejor de los Mundos, Norwegian Wood, Cloud Atlas, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, The Millstone, King Lear (etc...), The Pickwick Papers, The Coast of Chicago, Nine Stories, Men and Cartoons, The Insufferable Gaucho, Americana, Sixty Stories, The Passion, Consider the Lobster, The Intuitionist The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Saturday, and I must say I just finished loving Freedom...