Shakespeare and Austen and Plath etcetc. all get enough worshipping (deservedly and it should stay that way but - )

Which LIVING and writing authors do you love? Who excites you right now?

Here are two I love :

Ali Smith - I bought one of her short story collections out of curiousity about a year ago and it was the first time a short story made me properly cry. I like how playful she is with language and sometimes her novels frustrate me when I get to the end but I love the journey there.

Sean O'Reilly - I bought Watermark a couple of years ago and whenever I think about it takes me back into the trance I was in while reading it. I can't wait to read the rest of his work.

I'd also really like to hear about any emerging novelists or poets just being published now that any of you love already?

irvine welsh!

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I like him too . I went to see him do a reading last year in Waterstones in Glasgow he seems lovely.
I bought his new book though and I never bothered finishing it. I don't know he doesn't make me excited any more. It all started when my boyfriend got the wrong cover we got the sausage.

Paul Auster
oh and JD Salinger. i forgot he was still alive.

Doris Lessing is just barely living I suppose, at 88 or 149 or something. But I still rate her, and she's still turning out fantastic books. A living treasure, a living fossil.

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