Favorite Authors

[Aisling]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I also really enjoyed Notes from Underground. Maybe I should check out Nabokov since you are such a big advocate!

These days it's all about Paula Vogel, Bev Marshall, and Yusef Komunyakaa for me, though I shouldn't lump all three together because one is playwright, one a novelist, and the other a poet, respectively. I'm really getting into Jose Saramago, too.

I noticed that at least one person mentioned Evelyn Waugh. Maybe he's quite good, it's just that I was forced to read Vile Bodies in one of my undergraduate classes and I thought it was just tripe. Aren't other novels of his considered to be better?

in regards to evelyn waugh, i haven't read 'vile bodies', but i really liked 'brideshead revisited'. i thought it's depiction of youthful friendship, and how it changes as we age, was touching. but that's just me!