From his Q & A with Anna Metcalfe at the Financial Times:
What book changed your life?Read the complete Q & A.
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
* * *
Who are your literary influences?
There were so many in the beginning that hopefully, with time, and luck, by the end there will be none.
* * *
If you could own any painting, what would it be?
Magritte’s “Les Amants”.
* * *
What book do you wish you’d written?
Nabokov’s Pale Fire.
See Joshua Ferris' five most important books.
--Marshal Zeringue