television show i watch – writer i could imagine as show runner in a parallel universe

• “the hills” – raymond carver
• “weeds” – lorrie moore
• “big love” – jeffrey eugenides
• “rock of love with bret michaels” – norman mailer
• “californication” – bukowski (phillip roth if you want to be generous)
• “big brother” – walter benjamin
• “the sopranos” – don delillo (leaning heavily on ‘libra’ with a dash of ‘underworld’)
• “the flavor of love” – percival everett (circa ‘erasure’)
• “flight of the conchords” – aimee bender
• “hey paula” – joan didion
• “entourage” – john cheever
• “the office” – nicholson baker
• “lost” – thomas pynchon