The first question after my reading last week at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble was, “What books shaped the writing of From Square One?”
I acknowledged the following:
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Sarah Vowell, Radio On
Edward Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
The last one is a little eccentric, since I’ve never actually read it. But based on what I know of it, I think it’s a direct antecedent.
I’ll find out soon because it has gone to the top of my summer reading list.
