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I am interested in writers who are little known in the US mainstream; therefore, I have quite a large range to choose from. I am interested particularly in Adalbert Stifter, Halldor Laxness, Thomas Traherne, Edmund Blunden, Edward Young, Ivan Goncharov and Fridtjof Nansen.

The authors whose works I enjoy, and who are more likely to be known in our dear airconditioned nightmare, are Herman Melville, Wallace Stevens, Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin, W.H. Auden, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Carlyle, and Gunter Grass.

I enjoy European and Middle Eastern cinema, with my favorite directors being Bergman, Fellini, Von Trier, Wenders, Rohmer, Mikhalkov, Kiarostami and Tarkovsky.