The American author on falling in love with The Great Gatsby, being inspired by Dylan Thomas – and the memoir of a canoe trip in Texas he comes back to My earliest reading memory The deaths of Old Dan and Little Ann in Wilson Rawls’s Where the Red Fern Grows were etched into my being as a first g...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/04/kevin-powers-i-was-ready-to-abandon-infinite-jest-a-thousand-times)