The 13 Authors Everybody Must Know
And their one book you must read, from Stephen King to Shakespeare
Saul Bellow
Esquire, March 2, 2010
Saul Bellow
Everything you need to know about what propels the American male: "I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, freestyle, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent."
The book to read: The Adventures of Augie March.
Raymond Carver
A car hits a boy. A woman licks whiskey off her lover's belly. Nobody captures the darkness and hopefulness of everyday America better.
The book to read: Where I'm Calling From.
Cormac McCarthy
Because he tells a truth most don't want to hear: that man is capable of terrible evil.
The book to read: Blood Meridian.
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
This is how smart, beautiful, postracial women think. This is prose so kinetic, it seems to break-dance.
The book to read: White Teeth.
William Faulkner
Sometimes you must see the world through a fractured lens.
The book to read: As I Lay Dying.
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Because: "She would of been a good woman... if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." We all would.
The book to read: The Complete Stories.
Stephen King
Stephen King
No writer knows more about our current cultural fears — the cold-war anxiety of The Dead Zone, the post-9/11 fearfulness of Under the Dome — than Uncle Stevie.
The book to read: The Stand.
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Have you ever felt as though you can't trust anyone, not your friends or your lovers, not your boss, your family, not your god, not even yourself?
The book to read: The Quiet American.
George Orwell
George Orwell
Because he is pissed off, uncompromising, and unapologetically political.
The book to read: Down and Out in Paris and London.
Philip Roth
He understands that at base, we're a nation of fearful poon hounds. Plus, he wrote the only great novel to end with a guy getting poked in the eye with a fork.
The book to read: American Pastoral.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Because behind the grandstanding — the run for mayor, the head-butting of Gore Vidal — you can sense that Mailer was as much a fragile soul as the last great literary man.
The book to read: The Executioner's Song.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
We all come out of Shakespeare's pen — every one of us, every one of our stories of revenge, of ambition, of baleful and nectarous and incestuous love.
The play to read: Henry V.
Capote is, in my opinion one of the best authors of world literature. Among his works are Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, two of the great masterpieces you must read in your life. (Francisco Vaz Brasil)
Truman Capote
Truman Capote Capote is, in my opinion one of the best authors of world literature. Among his works are Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, two of the great masterpieces you must read in your life. (Francisco Vaz Brasil)
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