Exactly, I always find myself doing that , trying to play the matching game with names or books. Sometimes he changes the names just a bit, and sometimes he keeps it the same. Like in Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook he refers to John Fante as John Bante. That's a nice obvious one. But in that same passage he refers to a book by Fante titled Sporting Times? Yeah? which I have no clue what that one refers to, since there are none with a similar title. Ask the Dustpossibly?
And well I guess I should start respecting MJP, now that Faulkner's Dick says so. I got a crystal ball laying around here somewhere if you want to put it to good use.