Authors you love

[Sarah]

I also like everything Janwillem van de Wetering has written.

[Dorvid Barnas]

The guy seems to get a ton of hipster backlash for some reason, but I really loved both Jonathan Safran Foer novels.

If we can include playwrights, Kenneth Lonergan and David Auburn.

[bruce]

Since Master of Sparks has mentioned a good number of writers I read.

He forgot to mention Charles Willeford & Gil Brewer two old school Fawcett Gold Medal writers. Both have new reprints that just came out recently.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

If we can include playwrights, my list gets a lot longer and more diverse: Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, Maria Irene Fornes, Mac Wellman, Len Jenkin, Robert Shenkkan, Suzan-Lori Parks, Naomi Iizuka, Naomi Wallace, Chuck Mee, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Brecht, Sondheim.

[Martin]

EllroyEllroyEllroyEllroyEllroy

[kimota]

Robert Olmstead, Harlan Ellison, Chris Offutt, Walter Gibson, Warren Ellis, Raymond Carver, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Tobias Wolf, J.D. Salinger and David Lee Roth.

[Spoony]

There are too many to consider, but my really like Martin Cruz Smith. His Russian detective Arkady Renko is a great character.

[Gilly]

Neil Gaiman

[bruce]

There are too many to consider, but my really like Martin Cruz Smith. His Russian detective Arkady Renko is a great character.

I love his super early writing career myself



He wrote three of them to be exact, just total mindless spy action

[Spoony]

OH MAN his Inquisitor series looks hilarious! I've never read them, but I love the covers.

I read Nightwing and thought is was going to be trash-horror, but there were some genuinely horrifying things going on in there. I was hoping he'd be completely slumming to pay bills, but it was a smart book. But yeah, there's a good reason he changed his pen name when he wrote Gorky Park. I like to imagine some publisher giving him a hard time, asking if his new detective will be fighting horde of bats.

C!

[Sarah]

Oh, so Nightwing is a bat horror story.  I've had it around for ages but somehow just haven't had the gumption to read it.  Now that I know it involves bats and creepiness, I'll be more likely to pick it up.

[Spoony]

Take the plunge! I got really hooked as the story went on.

I heard a movie was made out of it. I should sniff around for that. It's probably doesn't have the book ending though. I don't want to ruin the ending, but in the you find out the Head Bat is also a robot. And then everyone is a robot.

IT'S A TWIST!

C

[Phantom Hugger]

I don't normally read a whole lot of fiction but the stuff I do read seems to be more of the genre kind than proper literature.
Having said that, if want to read a good horror/mystery that actually gave me the willies try Brian Evenson's The Open Curtain. I wonder what Mitt Romney thinks of this one.

Also his collection of short stories The Din of Celestial Birds is more surreal but equally willy inducing.

[B_Buster]

Charles Portis, Richard Yates, Cormac McCarthy, Joseph Conrad, Jim Thompson, Philip Roth, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, Raymond Chandler, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekov, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor, John Fante, Knut Hamsun, Henry Miller, etc.

[Man Machine]

Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver can do no wrong.