M Baker

Just a run-of-the-mill malcontent and aspiring writer. Those really are one in the same, I suppose. I have hopes of one day completing a full-length novel. For now I am working on expanding several long short-stories into short long-stories (i.e. into novellas).

Favorite novels:
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
White Noise by Don DeLillo
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Favorite Poets:
T.S. Eliot
Rainer Maria Rilke
Wallace Stevens
Sylvia Plath
Lord Byron
Dylan Thomas
W.B. Yeats
Allen Ginsburg
Arthur Rimbaud