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Old 04-26-2007, 05:51 AM
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Living Authors

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?
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Old 04-26-2007, 06:08 AM
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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.
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Paul Auster
oh and JD Salinger. i forgot he was still alive.

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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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peter carey. he is wonderful. my favourite living author. he excites me.
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My fave are Paul Auster, David Leavitt, and Nick Hornby <3

I also like Ian McEwan, Salinger, Don Delillo and 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.
what's the new book called?
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is salingr still alive? yay
that's why there's no catcher movie

he's my favourite EVER
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that's why there's no catcher movie

he's my favourite EVER
He's still hanging in there. Thankfully his odious son Matt's acting career (Captain America, anyone?) is even less visable than JD.
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what's the new book called?
The Bedroom Secrets of the Masterchefs. I don't know where you live but over here in Scotland they had I think 4 different covers I forget what they all were now but one was a sausage and another one was an asparagus, and there is a fly on the sausage I think. I have to go look out the book to tell you but I know the cover wasn't the one I wanted, not that that should really matter but


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I also like Ian McEwan, Salinger, Don Delillo and Irvine Welsh.
I like Nick Horny too sometimes.

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Have I been living under a rock I've never heard of Paul Auster I'm going to look him up on Amazon. What is your favourite of his?


Does anyone love any living poets?
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He is 80 though.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my all time favourite writer!
He is 80 though.

he is also dead

Haruki Murakami is mine, but i hardly read modern novels.

i like Terry Pratchett too, no better fantasy writer for young adults.

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Peter Carey - his history of the kelly gang was immense

Alex Garland - the beach is a fine cult novel, and his film scripts are excellent

Bill Bryson - his short history of nearly everything was great, and his travel books are meant to be great too.

Jostein Gaarder - great educational philosophy novels

Harper Lee and J.D. Salinger are both still alive too, but not publishing
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oh and JD Salinger. i forgot he was still alive.
this post for timeserved authors who might be dead soon anyway and will enter the canon, which is a big pile of puke. i like paul auster, delillo yeah. alasdair gray. um. atwood. um. my brain is dying. i used to like books

oh god doris lessing. thanks for the reminder bort. i need to read the sontaran experiments again, i mean the sirian experiments again
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