Hi Jim, and welcome to the RARA AVIS list-
You wrote:
> Influence is a tricky thing to assess, especially in
one's own writing.
> I've certainly learned from Tom Disch, Jim Burke,
Iain Sinclair, Jerome
> Charyn, W.S. Merwin, Robert Lowell, Walter Mosley
and a host of others.
> Older influences include Blaise Cendrars and Boris
Vian, Guillevic,
> Theodore Sturgeon, George R. Stewart, Alfred Bester,
Edgar Pangborn,
> Chester Himes, Nathanael West, James Joyce, Samuel
Beckett, Machado de
> Assis, Charles Baudelaire. This list could go on
longer than either of us
> could stay awake.
I followed a link from your website to your review of _The
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas_ by Joaquim Maria Machado De
Assis, and then went to Amazon.com and picked it up. I'm
looking forward to reading it, based on your
recommendation.
I'm sorry to say that I've never read anything of yours
before. In light of that, I'd like to ask which volume out of
your considerable canon of work you would suggest someone
begin with? If this question has already been asked this
month, sorry, I must have missed it.
All the Best-
Brian Thornton
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