Selection From Tobias Wolff
from "Old School:"
... Anyway, I myself was in debt to Hemingway -- up to my ears. So was Bill. We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.
All of us owed someone, Hemingway or cummings or Kerouac -- or all of them, and more. We wouldn't have admitted to it but the knowledge was surely there ....
So, Monkey Maniacs, who do you imitate, either in your writing or in whatever art you do, hobby you have, passion you hold (or rather, when we're talking passion, I should describe it as having a hold of you rather than as something you hold, passion being what it is)?
posted by Bobby @ 5:54 AM
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I'm glad you asked. Here is a SHORT list of my writing influences: Charles Wesley, John Keats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, Derek Webb, Robert Frost, Arthur Rimbaud, Flannery O' Connor, Stuart Townend, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, Sinclair Lewis, WB Yeats, Woody Guthrie ... I think I'll stop there but there are many others.
Musical influences include all the singer-songwriters above plus Sam Bush (and his old band, New Grass Revival), the Wallflowers, U2, Jayhawks, Alison Krauss, Son Volt, Indelible Grace, David Grisman, and, again, many, many others.
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