My Favorite Authors and Writers

a list of my favorite authors and writers

My favorite authors and writers are:

• George Orwell

• Dennis Cooper

• Jim Goad

• Adam Parfrey

• Shaun Partridge

• Peter Sotos

• Gene Wolfe

• R. A. Lafferty

• Brian Aldiss

• Harry Harrison

• William Hope Hodgson

• Edwin Charles Tubb

• Fredric Brown

• Sigmund Freud

• Isaac Asimov

• Greg Egan (check out his website)

• Fred Saberhagen

• Roger Zelazny

• Robert Silverberg

• Ron Silliman (but his son Colin is much cooler and more influential)

• Joe Brainard

• Ted Berrigan

• Ron Padgett

• Jean Cocteau

• Raymond Queneau

• Francis E. Dec (check out the fan website)

• Comte de Lautréamont

• Georges Perec

• Marcel Proust

• Jorge Luis Borges

• Stéphane Mallarmé

• Alain de Botton

• Robinson Jeffers

• Hubert Selby Jr.

• Hart Crane

• Mike Royko

• Siegfried Kracauer

• Malcolm Alan Bennett

• Norman Mailer

• Vincent Woodard

• Paul Zindel

• Betsy Byars

• Joan Lindsay

• Lois Duncan

• Robert Cormier

• Edmund White

• Andrew Holleran

• Marquis de Sade

• Yukio Mishima

• Haruki Murakami

• Yasunari Kawabata

• Tamiki Hara

• Kenzaburō Ōe

• Izumi Suzuki

• Masaki Hayashi (his website, here)

• Edward Seidensticker

• Frithjof Schuon

• Ananda Coomaraswamy

• Dimitrije Mitrinović

• Alan Watts

• Bruce Cumings

• Donald Keene

• Jared Taylor

• John Derbyshire (the perfect writer with a perfect website)

• Frederik L. Schodt

• B.R. Myers

• Alex Kerr

• Jack Seward

• René Girard

• Vilém Flusser

• Dick Hebdige

• Martin Gardner

• David Stove

• Chris Crawford (read his amazing blog at www.erasmatazz.com)

• Miller Puckette (read his book, here)

• Don Norman

• Seth Giddings

• John Frederick Lange Jr.

• Kevin Lynch

• Richard Garfield

• Andy Looney (his vintage website Wunderland is a treasure trove!)

• Ian Livingstone

• Charles Taylor

• György Lukács

• Paul Cockshott

• Antonio Negri

• Maurice Bardèche

• Robert Brasillach

• Lucien Rebatet

• Alain de Benoist

• Nicolás Gómez Dávila

• Jean Cau

• Martin Buber

• Alain Badiou

• Gilles Châtelet

• François Laruelle

• Gabriel Rockhill

• Sianne Ngai

• Paul Fussell

• Zygmunt Bauman

• Max Stirner

• Bob Black

• Derek McCormack

• Larry McCaffery

• Harold Jaffe (a schizophrenic parasite that somehow got an easy Phd job)

• Aaron Clarey

• Alfred Cromwell (citytutoringmath)

• Christopher Jon Bjerknes

• Jiang Xueqin

• Bruno Latour

• Jason Reza Jorjani

• Aleksandr Dugin

• Caleb Maupin

• Armistead Maupin

• Danielle Steel

• Rainer Zitelmann

• Richard D. Wolff

• Michael Hudson

• Michael Parenti

• David Harvey

• Alan Woods

• E. Michael Jones

• Daniel Bell

• Guy Debord

• Henri Lefebvre

• Gaston Bachelard

• Alexander R. Galloway

• Manuel DeLanda

• Hans-Georg Moeller

• Timothy Morton

• George Boole

• Georg Cantor

• Gottlob Frege

• Michael Dummett

• Graham Priest

• Donald Davidson

• Hilary Putnam

• John Searle

• G.A. Cohen

• Hans Sluga

• Alva Noë

• John M. Frame

• Ronald H. Nash

• Theodore Metrakas

• Émile Durkheim

• Max Weber

• Emil Cioran

• Christian Lander

• David Brooks

• Alain Touraine

• David Macey

• Thorstein Veblen

• Camille Paglia

• Andrea Dworkin

• Vanessa Place

• Kathy Acker

• Karl Hyde

• Katherine Dunn

• Anne M. Ishii

• Ken Ishii

• Marie Myung-Ok Lee

• Raymond Radiguet

• Charles Fort

• Albert Borgmann

• Arthur R. Butz

• Grover Furr

• Alvin Plantinga

• Richard Swinburne

• John Carroll

• Richard Rorty

• Isaiah Berlin

• George Steiner

• Paul Weiss

• Gilbert Ryle

• Edward Lee

• Robert Stanek (his eccentric website)

• Gertrude Stein

• Alfred Chester

• Bill Hopkins

• Colin Wilson

• Stuart Holroyd

• Peter Kolosimo

• Stewart Home

• James Moffat

• Jonathan Bowden

• Joseph Sciambra

• Randy Shilts

• Jeffery P. Dennis

• Will Fellows

• Guy Hocquenghem

• Hanya Yanagihara

• Gary Shteyngart

• Irvine Welsh

• Harry Hay

• Anthony Ludovici

• Arthur Rimbaud

• Eric S. Raymond

• Peter Milligan

• James Nulick

• Anita Dalton

• Peter Coffin

• Paul Curran

• R.D. Laing

• Michel Onfray

• Wolfgang Iser

• Fredric Jameson

• Steven Heller (he taught me in graduate school)

• Peter Schjeldahl

• Robert Christgau

• Simon Reynolds

• Bob Larson

• Peter Popoff

• Rev. Leroy Jenkins

• Martin H. Greenberg

• Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

• Seraphim Rose

• Georges Simenon

• Norton Juster

• Edward Feser

• Giorgio Agamben

• Dan LeRoy

• Ralph Grassi (www.funchase.com)

• John Patric

• Flann O’Brien

• Ernie Pyle

• François de La Rochefoucauld

• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

• Debito Arudou

• Lisa Nakamura

• Samir Amin

• Sara Ahmed

• Gary P. Leupp

• William Timothy Rogers Jr. (A true Asiansexual)

• Akinokure (Agnostic) (his website)

• rubycalaber (his forum, his website, his article, and his art)

• Antero Alli

• Patrick Roesle

• Shamus Young

• Brian M. Clark

• Greg Hill & Kerry Wendell Thornley

• Daniil Andreyev

• Brett Stevens (his website and his best article)

• TW Walsh

• Ray Blanchard

• Quentin Crisp

• Lester Bangs

• Harry Harlow

• Judd Winick

• David Ljung Madison Stellar (his website)

• Simon G. Sheppard (his website)

• James Ellroy

• George Cockcroft

• Carl Oglesby

• Rucy Cui

• Albert Bandura

• Donald F. Glut

• (Every issue of Giant Robot magazine)

• (Every issue of Amped Asia magazine)

• (Every issue of Juxtapoz magazine)

• (Every issue of Audion magazine)

• (Every issue of Plazm magazine)

• (Every issue of FringeWare Review)

• (Everything on Loompanics Unlimited)

• Richard Mason

• Nicole Blackman

• Laurens van der Post

• Graham Oppy

• Karl Andersson (true AxA in spirit)

• Erich Auerbach

• Aaron Cometbus

• puker / Pukrz (his website)

• Gabriel Marcel

• Paul Ricœur

• Alan Macfarlane

• Laughing Horse Orifice Headquarters (their website)

• The Landover Baptist Church (their website and classic site)

• The people who wrote “endic.at.”

• Ed Anger and everyone who wrote Weekly World News.

• James Joyce, but only his novel Finnegans Wake.

• …And a bunch of other writers that I have read throughout the years, and only remember the name comes up through wisdom and citation…

BOOKS I LIKE: Non-Stop, Crying in H-Mart, Stuff White People Like, Class, Bullshit Jobs, The Image of the City, Subculture, The Book of the New Sun, Norwegian Wood, The Art of Being Ruled, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Propaganda, etc.

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