Writers Under the Influence

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Writers Under the Influence
An Amazon.com Exclusive
In early summer 2004 we commissioned an essay from a young debut writer. The assignment: What was the book that influenced you the most as a writer? His response inspired us to fire off that question to more writers--people we considered bold new voices on the literary scene. Writers Under the Influence is the result of this endeavor. We hope these essays, written exclusively for Amazon.com, will inspire you to seek out new books--both from the writers and the books they're writing about--to add to your collection.
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― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 16 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

― Fred (Fred), Thursday, 21 October 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark objects to the word 'influence' and its use.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

damn i thought this was going to be about something else

― dave q, Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

can't we make it something else?
my faves are hunter s. thompson and william s. burroughs

― degan, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm starting to think the whole "I wrote this book completely shitfaced!" routine is a con designed to keep the competition drunk...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 6 January 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

(I mean, writers may generally love to get shitfaced -- who doesn't? -- but show of hands: who here writes better when they take a week or ten off the sauce/what-have-you?)

(Excuse the festival of punctuation, I'm kinda buzzed on sleep dep.)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 6 January 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

So you're under the influence, then.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 January 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

Malcolm Lowry owns this thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Nah, it belongs to Balzac. (I'm reading La Peau de Chagrin, oh my oh my the tragic debauchery...)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

(And come to think of it, Balzac's being honest, bless his heart: the hero, when in the throes of demon liquor, accomplishes absolutely nothing.)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Is that all it takes to be honest these days?