Ralph Ellison, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Umberto Eco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner are a few of my favorite authors.
1. Dennis Cooper Notable for: Erotic, transgressive gay fiction. Books: Closer, Frisk Cooper’s writing is dark, graphic, and often controversial. It explores desire, violence, and queerness in raw, poetic prose.
2. Garth Greenwell Notable for: Beautiful, lyrical gay fiction with explicit sexual and emotional depth. Books: What Belongs to You, Cleanness His stories are intimate and sensual explorations of gay love, shame, and desire.
3. Ocean Vuong Notable for: Tender yet powerful queer storytelling and poetry. Books: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Vuong’s work blends poetic language with raw explorations of sexuality, trauma, and immigrant identity.
1. Dennis Cooper Notable for: Erotic, transgressive gay fiction. Books: Closer, Frisk Cooper’s writing is dark, graphic, and often controversial. It explores desire, violence, and queerness in raw, poetic prose.
2. Garth Greenwell Notable for: Beautiful, lyrical gay fiction with explicit sexual and emotional depth. Books: What Belongs to You, Cleanness His stories are intimate and sensual explorations of gay love, shame, and desire.
3. Ocean Vuong Notable for: Tender yet powerful queer storytelling and poetry. Books: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Vuong’s work blends poetic language with raw explorations of sexuality, trauma, and immigrant identity.
Sounds like someone's been visiting the library at their local liberal elementary school.
1. Dennis Cooper Notable for: Erotic, transgressive gay fiction. Books: Closer, Frisk Cooper’s writing is dark, graphic, and often controversial. It explores desire, violence, and queerness in raw, poetic prose.
2. Garth Greenwell Notable for: Beautiful, lyrical gay fiction with explicit sexual and emotional depth. Books: What Belongs to You, Cleanness His stories are intimate and sensual explorations of gay love, shame, and desire.
3. Ocean Vuong Notable for: Tender yet powerful queer storytelling and poetry. Books: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Vuong’s work blends poetic language with raw explorations of sexuality, trauma, and immigrant identity.
Sounds like someone's been visiting the library at their local liberal elementary school.
I don't quite understand this comment, but isn't this Elzo guy the one who always posts pictures of mostly naked men? Seems like he would appreciate those recommendations.
Sounds like someone's been visiting the library at their local liberal elementary school.
I don't quite understand this comment, but isn't this Elzo guy the one who always posts pictures of mostly naked men? Seems like he would appreciate those recommendations.
Leftists are all triggered by pictures of naked men....
Pretend they are on the wall in a 2nd grade classroom.
Suddenly you will think they are brave and beautiful...
I tend to like the classics. Dickens (of course), Tolstoy, George Eliot, Hermann Hesse, John Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky and Balzac (I like dark novels), Michael Connelly, Walter Mosley.
Ralph Ellison, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Umberto Eco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner are a few of my favorite authors.
I tend to like the classics. Dickens (of course), Tolstoy, George Eliot, Hermann Hesse, John Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky and Balzac (I like dark novels), Michael Connelly, Walter Mosley.
War and Peace has been staring at me for a long time, yep, intimidated by what 1400 pages?
I tend to like the classics. Dickens (of course), Tolstoy, George Eliot, Hermann Hesse, John Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky and Balzac (I like dark novels), Michael Connelly, Walter Mosley.
About 30 books on the Middle East, about that many on being black in America,,About that many about music. Same with boxing, rasslin', football and track.
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Ralph Ellison, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Umberto Eco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner are a few of my favorite authors.
Good to see Ellison at the top of this list. A few days ago, I was thinking of my favorite novels, and Invisible Man, which I haven't read in its entirety in over fifty years, was one of the first that came to mind. It still haunts me. I hope to put aside a bit of time in my remaining days to return to it.
I tend to like the classics. Dickens (of course), Tolstoy, George Eliot, Hermann Hesse, John Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky and Balzac (I like dark novels), Michael Connelly, Walter Mosley.
I haven't much time on this site in recent years, buy it's good to see you still around. I remember that you had good taste in movies. (Who else remembers Tender Mercies? And, more importantly, who else would recall that it was an approximately perfect little gem?) As for writers, I finally took the plunge last year with a real Russian novel, and selected Anna Karenina, which turned out to be, I think, an excellent choice. I also participated in a college course on the short stories of James Joyce, perhaps my favorite writer of fiction, and whose Dubliners includes some of my favorite writing. Finally, in recent years, I've enjoyed the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, starting with The Remains of the Day and moving forward to Klara and the Sun and backward to Never Let Me Go.