Ryan Dilbert, On Reading

"I always find inspiration when I read. Sometimes it is the kind that bestows wings, the Gatorade for the muse kind, the type of literary gourmet experience that leaves me with ideas fluttering and my heart grinning. Sometimes it is the other kind, the one where I say to myself, 'I can do better than that.' Both are equally valuable."

{Ryan Dilbert’s novel Time Crumbling like a Wet Cracker is forthcoming from No Record Press in 2011. You can find a list of his published stories and miscellany here. He is a below average basketball player and the editor of Shelf Life Magazine.}