![]() ![]() Maybe this doesn’t really count, but my first paid job as a kid was cleaning dental equipment in my dad’s office. What other professions have you worked in? The books that influence me most right now can’t decide if they’re fiction or nonfiction, or whether we should bother making a distinction between the two. ![]() Sebald, Olga Tokarczuk, Lydia Davis, Thomas Bernhard. Bruno Schulz, Ludmila Petrushevskaya, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, W.G. I prefer strange, quirky writers and books. What writer(s) or works have influenced the way you write now? My parents saved all kinds of junk from my school days, but sadly all that remains of that story is fragments of memory. ![]() He feeds it, bathes it, plays with it, tries to use it to climb to heaven. ![]() In elementary school I remember writing and illustrating a story about a boy who discovers a broken thread of sunlight on the playground and takes it home. Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. from "Skin Walking," Volume 63, Issue 2 (Summer 2022) No doubt he pretended not to be disappointed, and I can imagine him chatting with the postman about his gardens. There is a letter from his mother and another from his friend, the physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, but none from Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. Fifty-nine hours before dying, Hermann Ploucquet greets the postman in the doorway. ![]()
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