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Wallace Stegner's writing influenced Richard Ford's writing greatly it seems to me. It's the slapstick jokey narrative style of the main character. Stegner is always referencing famous authors and thinkers from Ancient Greece on. Flaunt your literariness why not, I like it.

"There are lots of perfectly pleasant people whom I like but I don't see them I don't miss them " I might have a lot in common with Joe!