I Need A New "Favorite Living Author"
We had a memorial service for Isaac [Asimov] a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, 'Isaac is up in heaven now.' It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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Kurt is up in heaven now.
posted by Justin S. @ 4/12/2007 10:12:00 AM
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I definitely enjoyed reading him, even though it's been a while. Here's a list of potential runner-ups (in alphabetical order only) I'm generally a reader of the classics but these are some modern authors that stand out for me.
Edward Albee (playwright: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Goat or Who is Sylvia?) Do all his plays end with question marks? :-p
Martin Amis
Maya Angelou
Ray Bradbury
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the Time of Cholera; One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains of the Day; The Artist of the Floating World; When We Were Orphans)
Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior)
Alice Munro (short stories)
Some others to definitely check out:
Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
Edward Jones (The Known World)
I'm thinking this needs to be a poll question.
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