"I rediscovered this recently, one of my favourites, it must be in my top five favourite albums. That was another one I got into when I was a teenager in Colchester and it’s reared its ugly face again. It’s just a bloody masterpiece, absolutely"

"My list of favorite books changes daily, if not hourly, but there are a few that I turn to over and over again as a writer. Whenever I begin to doubt the entire project of writing, I pick up Mrs. Bridge and am reassured."

"If I were allowed two books, I would pair this one with The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. I could spend a whole fall and winter just going back and forth between Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and Strand's "Dark Harbor.""

"I watched this at my brother’s apartment on East Ninth Street and Second Avenue when I was a teenager. Beyond being a movie I return to regularly, it makes me think of grabbing pierogies with my brother at Veselka when they were still affordable."