Favorite poets: Hardy, Frost, Bishop, Yeats, Larkin, Auden, Derek Mahon, Hopkins, Robert Lowell, Plath, Mandelstam, MacNeice, Celan, Wilbur, Herbert, many more.
Favorite prose (fiction and otherwise): Proust, Carver, Hardy, Tintin, Eliot, Poe, Heidegger, Orwell, Luc Sante, Anthony Lane, Schulz's Peanuts, Alan Moore, Raymond Williams, Walter Benjamin, many more.
Thanks, Will, for the kind words about "Blowdown." Still reading Larkin, maybe it's having a salutory influence.
Thanks, Will, for the kind words about "Blowdown." Still reading Larkin, maybe it's having a salutory influence.