Every book I have ever mentioned in my writing — I have been paid by the author to do so. The Proust Reading series, the one about dead empresses in The PIllow Book and the Tale of the Heike. Murdoch Month. Bellow, Keats, Kobayashi Hideo. Personally bribed for each of these with a linen sack full of ancient currency. You have no idea how deep the publishing PR machine goes, it is literally spectral, if you ever want to solve it you’ll need the Ghostbusters’ help.