Jonathan Dee

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.

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These are some quotes by American author Jonathan Dee Novelist, who was born in 1962.

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Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that.

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What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?

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I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.

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