Sonny GastSonny Gast began reading books at nineteen years of age. He started with philosophy; going from the ancients to continental to post-modernism. He was not initially interested in stories, theatre, art or drama. He started to read fiction after realizig the reading of philosophy lacked what he was reading it for. Then he discovered that in him were mountains of interest for the arts. A world-shifting book for him is The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. He rarely enjoys what he reads.His favourite writers are Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Gerald Murnane and Bruce Chatwin.His writing strives for simplicity and personal truth. He does not care to entertain or inspire, but to suggest and ponder. Read More Read Less