My publisher interviewed me a while back, and asked some great questions that really got me chatting (during which I apparently dropped a lot of names: Lloyd Alexander, Laurie Anderson, Catullus, Annie Dillard, Jim Harrison, Robyn Hitchcock, Russell Hoban, Bill Holm, Maxine Hong Kingston, John Larroquette, Ursula Le Guin, Will Lyman, Thomas McGrath, Vincent Price, Thomas Pynchon, Henry David Thoreau, JRR Tolkien, Barbara Tuchman, Tom Waits, Virginia Woolf, and Louis Zukofsky).