He was my favorite storyteller and remains one of my favorite writers... And perhaps I still feel him as some kind of imaginary friend. When I reread Oscar Wilde's prose or letters, it seems like I am speaking with an old, wise, kind friend. A similar feeling -- that I am talking to a friend -- is evoked in my soul only by Nikolai Gogol's prose, the poetry of Alexander Pushkin, and Federico GarcĂa...