Denis Johnson Richard Ford John Cheever Thom Jones Hubert Selby Phillip Roth Richard Brautigan Joan Didion William T. Vollmann Richard Yates Bill Watterson George Saunders Harry Mathews Nelson Algren Raymond Carver Donald Barthelme Tobias Wolff Jamaica Kincaid Sadeq Hedayat Junot Diaz Richard Russo Jonathan Lethem Tim O'Brien David Eggers Leon De Winter Barry Hannah Jim Thompson Samuel Beckett William Carlos Williams Ann Beattie Rick Moody Aimee Bender Harry Crews Sherman Alexie Arturo Perez Reverte Cormac Mccarthy Flannery O'Connor Roger Angell Robert Olmstead Leonard Michaels Johannes V. Jensen Jonathon Saffron Foer Michel Tournier Mary Robison Joy Williams Geoff Dyer Stuart Dybek Jonathan Ames Jerry Stahl