Bell cites novelist Walker Percy as the most direct influence upon his fiction; like Percy, he attempts to portray a realistic slice of modern life with all its absurdity. Indirect influences perhaps are Andrew Lytle, who taught a generation of young writers the impact that can be achieved by a sequence of introspective psychological narratives, and Flannery O'Connor, who demonstrated the significance that can be revealed through the use of grotesques. As a film-maker, Bell cannot have been unaffected.....
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