I did decide to allow myself one autobiographical detail. I'll write a police procedural-I know enough about it (with a fair amount of research thrown in) to sound authoritative, and what could be further from an English grad student’s personal experience than a story about investigating homicides? And it didn't hurt that my favorite writers included the likes of James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly. Although my career goals changed, I was left with a considerable amount of background knowledge that I felt I could put to good use. My father was a Los Angeles deputy sheriff, and throughout most of my youth, I wanted to be a police officer. What, I asked myself, could I credibly write about that was very different from my own experience? One of the main reasons I've always loved reading is that it takes me away from myself and allows me to experience the lives of other people. As is the case in many such programs, there was a good deal of autobiographical introspection in the writing going on around me, and that was the last thing I wanted to do. When I began writing A King of Infinite Space, I was in graduate school earning an MFA in fiction writing.
When the months and years we discussed the books are not listed, it is because we have lost track of what we read when.The titles are mostly fiction (from literary fiction to popular fiction, including a hefty dose of science fiction), yet we’ve been leaning towards more non-fiction over the years in genres from history and memoir to economics and philosophy.These are the books we’ve consumed over the years.
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