What I read

I read the existentialist writers: Thomas Mann, Knut Hamsun and Milan Kundera. I read the existentialists themselves: Jean-Paul Sartre and, of course, Friedrich Nietzsche.

I am beginning to turn my attention now to the post-modernists, such as Andre Breton.

I adore the hard-hitting American realists: Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, John Updike, Richard Yates, Saul Bellow.

Among English writers, Kingsley Amis makes me roar with laughter, Iris Murdoch makes me weep and Evelyn Waugh I regard as the greatest romantic, thanks to Brideshead Revisited.

I subscribe to The Economist and Vanity Fair and regularly read The Guardian. I check in daily with Salon.com.