At the Guardian he tagged a top ten list of novels about lost friendships, including:
Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson BakerRead about the other entries on the list.
Poor old Paul Chowder. Over the course of The Anthologist and this, its sequel, I’ve kind of come to regard the gentle, hapless poet-narrator of these novels as a personal friend due to the sheer warmth and confessional intimacy with which he addresses me. And in this novel, Paul spends the majority of his time missing and yearning for his friend (and ex) Roz.
--Marshal Zeringue