Here, he shares his literary influences.
I first opened this book…contemplating my life in an office at the Harvard Law Review.
I found more richness and wisdom in Lukas book than in anything I read in law school.
Credit: Robert Ascroft
Lukasnot any judge or justicebecame my idol and role model.
The genre Id read if I were limited to one
Anything but science fiction.
Man, those were some dumb criminals.
A book I wished Id written
Jill LeovysGhettoside.
While I was at the O.J.
trial, she was documenting murders in South Central L.A.
In the larger scheme of things, she may have had the bigger story.
Do I read my books after they come out?
I concluded that it must be a very interesting book.
The classic Im embarrassed to say Ive never read
Anna Karenina.
The classic Ive pretended to have read
Anna Karenina.
(She dies at the end, right?)
Thats lovemine for the movies, that is.
The book Ive read over and over
John le CarresTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
My literary hero
Nick Carraway inThe Great Gatsby.
An observer and a participant; a good guy and a not-so-good guy; an insider and an outsider.
My literary crush
Jordan Baker, Nicks sort-of girlfriend, inGatsby.
Shes not so nice, but shes very sexy.
(Plus, shes a golfer.
I like golf.)
My sports column for my college newspaper was called Inner Toobinwhich is so awful that its kind of great.
Its so brilliant that it makes me euphoricand kind of jealous, too.
