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mikelly63
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Posted: 25 Jul 2019 at 2:26pm |
I don't know if this has been posted before, saw a favorite novel post but not short story authors
I read primarily short stories and the books I read tend to be on the short side. Here are some of my favs. Classics: Kafka, Hemingway, Paul Bowles. Metamorphosis is my favorite of all time. Hemingway and Bowles I love there short stories but dislike their books. I guess I'm a Hemingway hater when it comes to his books but not his stories, most of which were written before his classic novels. Sci Fi: Philip K. Dick, Vonnegut, JG Ballard and Harlan Ellison. I have read many of Dicks novels, probably 19 and he is one of my favorite authors. Vonnegut too. Horror: JR Lansdale. I realized I hardly read any horror and I bet I would like it if I found the right authors. I read King's short stories when I was a kid, should probably revisit them. BTW did I say Metamorphosis is my favorite? Sorry Bubba Ho Tep is the greatest work of literature and cinema of all time! Contemporary: George Saunders, TC Boyle. Saunders is probably my favorite short story writer. I tend to like dark humor and satire. 2 new writers I just discovered that also fall into that category are Alyssa Nutting and John Jodzio. I also like Stuart Dybeck, he writes a lot of growing up in Chicago, and he's a great painter.
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vkmartin
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I don't read as many short stories as I'd like to (I want to read all the things) but short stories is one place where I really enjoy Neil Gaiman. Not all of his stories are hits but they're usually at least interesting. With his novels, I find his characters often seem flat, but I don't have that problem in shorter things. Also Stephen King is a pretty brilliant short story writer.
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GallifreyGirl
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Amber Sparks, Karen Russell, Jennifer Egan, Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, Denis Johnson, DFW, Lydia Davis ... I've also been on an essay-reading kick lately, so John D'Agata, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jo Ann Beard, Dinty Moore, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard
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ChillyToez
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I'm half way through Gabino Iglesias's "Coyote Songs" and the stories are riveting.
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mikelly63
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Amber Sparks and Kelly Link look right up my alley, will check them out.
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kodanie1
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Jacob Appel is a current favorite of mine!
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Lookit There
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John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Sherwood Anderson, The Brothers Grimm. These are just off the top of my head - I'm sure I could go on and on and on...
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jibwriter
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My latest favorite is Helen Oyeyemi. I discovered her while doing research for a NYCM fairy tale prompt. I love both Mr. Fox and What is Not Yours is Not Yours. Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man was my original inspiration to write.
I loved and am still haunted by "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. Now I'm realizing I could also happily go on and on.
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mikelly63
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I am not a big fan of her, I love “Where Are you Going,
Where Have You Been”. Haunting indeed.
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masonanddixon
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Classics: Kafka, Hemingway, Poe, Lovecraft (he's extremely problematic, I know), Melville if only for Bartleby, Shirley Jackson, Gogol, Vonnegut, Borges. some Carver, Phillip K Dick, Donald Barthelme
Moderns: George Saunders, Denis Johnson, Amelia Gray (if anyone loves surreal horror, check her out), Ben Marcus, DFW, Haruki Murakami, Roberto Bolano I probably left out some, but there are many. My taste tends toward the surreal, and horrific when it comes to short stories, but only generally. I also find that my taste in novels is quite different. Some of the above writers have written novels I love (Melville, Vonnegut, Dick, Johnson), but others I just can't stand drawn out to more than a hundred pages. Gogol, for one, is nigh unreadable to me outside of his shorts.
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