- A friend in blog as well as a friend in real life had an interesting response to the season finale of the New Yinzer's reading series. It was a fun night, Karl Hendricks gavesome wonderfully adsurd insight into the difference between fiction and reality in his story, and that seemed to be the theme between all three of the readers, all three reading stories with themself inserted as a main character.
- Chuck Kinder told some great stories about his encounters with "mythological" writing heroes including Neal Cassidy and Jack Kerouac. Here are the principals of writing according to Jack Kerouac:
- Seems like the writers of the past generation didn't have any stomach for b.s. in storytelling.
- My Top Ten 'Writer's Writer list would look like:
10. Flannery O'Connor
9. Hunter S. Thompson
8. Ernest Hemingway
7. George Saunders
6. Franz Kafka
5. Tennessee Williams
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Jack Keroauc
2. Kurt Vonnegut
1. William Faulkner
- What would your list look like? Or tell me my list sucks. Either/or. I'm very easy to please.
Blow as deep as you want to blow, my friend.
ReplyDeleteYour list seems kind of safe to me. I always thought a "writer's writer" is someone who hasn't yet been discovered, someone only writers know is fantastic. The list on the Huffington Post is full of writers who are already really well known too. So who is still working in the shadows, not well known, secretly producing terrific work? Who would you list as important or brilliant that other people might not know already?
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting this together!
Great point - I was trying to be objective - but screw that ... I think my personal top 5 would run 5.Irvine Welsh 4. Ian Frazier 3. Michael Chabon 2. George Saunders and #1 MIRANDA JULY! I love her ... Still these are some pretty well-known writers but if I could recommend anyone who I feel represents s "writer's writer" it would be her
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