Dance Dance Dance

by 

Haruki Murakami

 
This story is one that makes me feel no anxiety about dying without writing my own book. It basically encapsulates me as i see myself. Read this in my mid twenties.

The Great Gatsby

Haven't read this since high school but this is the first book that I "read". This was the first book that I read on my own accord where I thought "this is actually not a story but this is real life."

The Idiot

by 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Emotions captured in ways i see accurate.

The short story 

Three Thousand Dollars

by 

David Lipsky

. I no longer identify with this but there was a time where this was my bible.

Lol I've been noticing that a lot of your writing has to do with slightly uppermiddleclass suburban life.

HOAs. bake sales. book clubs. working on lawns. 

Where's all this inspiration coming from? are they from your upbringing or more recent things? 

I know you aren't trying to mimic somebody because... well maybe you are?

Cause i know remember trying to mimic 

David Lipsky

and the northeastern pastoral family/ 

New York

artist styled upbrining as a writer for the longest time. 

I tried coming up with fake upbringings.. thinking they were real! I tried painting my artist-source as this thing that was just pure mimicry grounded in nothing substantial! anyways.

tldr: what is your inspiration/observations that lead to this consistent context?