I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.
All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.
George Saunders is a complete genius.
