"A book that imprinted me at a young age more than almost any other. (Patti Smith’s lifelong fixation has nearly ruined him for me but I’ll get over it.) He uses a terse footnote on page one — as a 13-year-old reader, startling and altering my idea of the possibilities of Literature itself – that in its power illumines David Foster Wallace’s Footnote Forest as moronic/masturbatory."

"I read this for the first time my sophomore year in high school. This is where I fell in love with The Bard. The drama, and the incredibly powerful words Lady Macbeth is given to say were unlike any I had heard from a woman in literature at that time. It felt like a page turner. Even though it wasn’t. Cause, y’know, iambic pentameter."

"A big, bold novel that spans six decades of the 20th century and opens with one of my favorite lines in literature: ""It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. Earthly Powers is like a big over packed old mansion you enter and never want to leave"