The writers with whom I feel a minor stylistic affinity aren’t novelists. They are:
- Adrian Tomine (cartoonist: Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, 32 Stories)
- Neil Labute (writer/director: In The Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors)
- David Baerwald (singer/songwriter: Bedtime Stories, Triage)
Honorable mentions go to Chuck Palahniuk —I’ve never read his work, but a number of people have suggested a similarity— and I’ll also throw in Jennifer Lynch, since I’ve been re-reading The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, and it’s even more fucked-up and insane than I remembered.
Oh, and someone once asked if I’d secretly written Diary of an Oxygen Thief. For whatever that’s worth.