I'm fairly itinerant at the moment, which means I'm rarely in a good position to reciprocate the generous hosting I often receive via this site. However, I look forward to having a good, warm, spacious home in the future to offer guests. More generally, I think couchsurfing is an excellent way to shift the emphasis of travel away from 'collecting experiences,' and towards meeting people, forming relationships, and helping each other out.

Books: lots of German literature (Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Thomas Bernhard especially) American literature (William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy and Don DeLillo especially) Irish literature (Samuel Beckett and James Joyce), Russian literature (Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov) French literature (Guy de Maupassant, Gustav Flaubert, Marcel Proust) - and then some Czech / Romanian / Norwegian writers, too. And then, of course, hundreds of films and songs.