A. M. Kaempf
A. M. Kaempf is a bookseller and a contributing editor at The Northwest Review of Books. His work is forthcoming in The Millions and The Threepenny Review.
On your nightstand:
I am trying to track down all of Michael Henry Heim’s translations, and I now have a respectable little stack: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, The Melancholy of Rebirth by George Konrád, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass, Fording the Stream of Consciousness by Dubravka Ugresic, Prague Tales by Jan Neruda, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Astrophobia by Sasha Sokolov, and Henri Troyat’s biography of Anton Chekhov.
Do you prefer reading print or ebooks?
Print.
Who or what inspires your writing?
Other writers, especially Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Hjalmar Söderberg.