PinkPanthress asked David B. Lentz:

Would would you like to be known for in the future.

David B. Lentz Thank you, Nesrin, for your intriguing question and it speaks to the legacy that a writer may aspire to leave behind in one's work. Odds are against nearly all writers of a legacy of any enduring literary impact except timeless anonymity. If the creative work is judged downstream to be worthy -- and future generations may not recognize it either -- in my case I hope to have added some stylistic innovation to English narrative styles. For example, "AmericA, Inc." is written in "stream of voice" in the narrative style of "JR" by Gaddis in which the story line unfolds in the dialogue of unidentified characters which has the effect of drawing readers mindfully into the writing. "Bloomsday" is the American sequel to Homer's "Odyssey" and James Joyce's "Ulysses" and each chapter is written in a different narrative style. "Bourbon Street" is a novel that experiments with dialect. "The Silver King" deploys an impressionist or "pixelist" writing style using short, non-traditional syntax. I shall soon publish a book of sonnets offering some new sonnet forms to build upon the Petrarchan, Elizabethan and Occitan sonnet forms of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The real challenge for a serious writer is to engage readers with an immersive 3D writing style, which must be accessible, to build upon the innovations and create a new narrative tool chest for writers who follow us just as we now stand upon the shoulders of those literary giants and stylistic innovators who came before us.

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