William Vollmann Ward Just Mo Yan Ariel Dorfman Gilbert Sorrentino Olaf Olaffson Julian Rathbone Emma Forrest Arthur Koestler Ha Jin William Saroyan Alan Furst Dave Sedaris Daniel Pinkwater Wright Morris Alan Warner William Vollman Patrick Tilley Cees Noteboom Jenny Diski Joseph Brodsky Richard Dooling Wallace Stegner Alison Lurie Edna St Vincent Millay Rupert Thomson Susan Hill Edward Abbey Richard Brautigan Will Self William Gaddis James P. Hogan Thomas Hardy Richard Russo Nabakov Joseph Conrad Raymond Chandler John Varley Arundhati Roy David Foster Wallace Dan Simmons Cormac Mccarthy Thomas Pynchon Jonathan Franzen Zadie Smith Jonathan Safran Foer Don Delillo Gregory Benford Bruce Sterling