Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed thats how my book begins, too, but I hadnt noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly. – Michael Chabon
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. – Andy Serkis