Our Writers and their Writers
I like to read. You should see me in a library or bookstore; all kinds of bookstores (big chains, small independent, used, thrift store book sections, library booksales). I like to read. And as I read my writers, I enjoy discovering what they like to read, so as to get information about more books I can read. And my writers often don't disappoint--they point me to other amazing writers. It is always good to read what they like to read. I recently discovered Colm Toibin, an Irish writer who has often been compared to James Joyce and others. And those others happen to be writers I have read. I want a writer to point me to writers that I already thought were good, but I also want a them to help me discover new writers along the way. Petina Gappah, because she talks about her writing as well as her reading process all the time, just helped me discover Toibin, and I am reading The Master , which uses the American writer Henry James as the main subject of the story, in the same way that ...