- ^ These early Ford stories led Granta editor Bill Buford to include Ford in his 'Dirty realism' categorization alongside fellow short-story writer Raymond Carver.
- ^ The full quote: ”I tend not to reread whole books over and over, even my big favorites. But I do keep returning to certain short stories, the way I might to favorite pieces of music. Richard Ford’s “Rock Springs” (the actual story); Chekhov’s “Ionych”; V. S. Naipaul’s “Tell Me Who to Kill”; Raymond Carver’s collection “Fires”; P. G. Wodehouse’s “The Clicking of Cuthbert”; Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze.” And John Millington Synge’s play “In the Shadow of the Glen.”
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