Writers who have mattered greatly to me include Hemingway and Fitzgerald, of course. GATSBY is for me the perfect novel and "Deal with the Dead" has some little homages to GATSBY buried away in it. Later, when I discovered the stories of Flannery O'Connor, I began to understand whole new possibilities for viewing the world. Ultimately, I fell in love with the work of Bernard Malamud and have read everything he has written, many of the books several times. The first stories I wrote were imitations of Hemingway, but Malamud and O'Connor were the influences for the first success I had as a writer. I published seven or eight stories in literary magazines, all trying to tread that line between fabulism and realism that they walk so well.
An Interview with Les Standiford by Steve Glassman. Standiford is the founding director of the MFA program in writing at Florida International University.
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