In the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip TV series, Matt Albie, played by Matthew Perry, uses the story of the man from Porlock and Kubla Khan to inspire his writers to a "4 AM Miracle", which is also the name of the episode. In Vladimir Nabokov's novel, Lolita, "A. Person, Porlock" is a member of the trail of pseudonyms Clare Quilty leaves on motel registries. In Robert A. Heinlein's novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, when a staff person comes to tell Jubal Harshaw that he has a telephone call, he responds "Anne, you have just interrupted a profound thought.