Two of my friends have prodded me with this one, so I have given in to the pressure. I hope you find benefit in my list. Ask me in ten years and the list may change. Who can say?
- E E Cummings (if ever there were a god made flesh…)
- Hemmingway (especially Old Man and the Sea)
- Henry Miller (especially Sexus)
- Gertrude Stein (especially The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
- Benjamin Franklin (the word autobiography was coined to explain what he’d written)
- Walter Kaufmann (premier Nietzscheian scholar and his Critique of Religion and Philosophy is amazing)
- Anaïs Nin (especially the five novels in her so-called continuous novel)
- Harlan Ellison
- Erich Fromm (ostensibly a psychologist; you can start with You Shall Be as Gods)
- Charles Bukowski
- Edna St Vincent Millay (especially her poem Renascence)
- Jean Baudrillard (French phenomenological philosopher)
- Donald Barthelme (excellent short story writer)
- Woody Allen (he has written many short stories as well as all those screenplays and stage plays)
- Stan Lee (nuff said)
