On nightstand now:
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner, The Narrows by Michael Connelly and a poker book by Phil Gordon.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Go Dog Go by Dr. Seuss
Top five authors:
Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac
Book you've "faked" reading:
Law school textbooks
Book you are an "evangelist" for:
The Comedy Writer by Peter Farrelly
Book you've bought for the cover:
Several Vintage Contemporaries, including Bright Lights, Big City and
The Sportswriter, which both proved to be important finds for me.
Book that changed your life:
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Favorite line from a book:
"It's the truth even if it didn't happen."--Ken Kesey in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
Go by John Clellon Holmes. I stumbled onto it in the Shakespeare and Company Bookshop in Paris when I was 22.
Trashy pop culture classic you've read twice:
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann