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    So here's a list of authors I love:

    Kurt Vonnegut

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Brett Easton Ellis

    Philip K Dick

    Hunter S Thompson

    William S Burroughs

    Allen Ginsberg

    Evelyn Waugh

    Martin Amis

    George Orwell

    Joseph Heller

    Graham Greene

    Spike Milligan

    I think it kinda adds up to a particular flavor of black comedy that turns on the tragedy of human stupidity, is sometimes dry, sometimes warm, sometimes absurd (or gonzo), and often comes across like it's channeling very real frustration and despair from the authors. A lot of these writers use unreliable narrators and write about war or politics.

    They're also all UK or US guys and most of them (apart from maybe Palahniuk and Ellis) aren't contemporary.

    I'm looking for stuff like this that's either more recent; or from writers of other nationalities; or other genders.

    It doesn't have to be all 3 of those things but if it's an older non-US/UK classic from a dude (Notes from Underground, The Stranger, 100 Years of Solitude etc) I'm more likely to have read it already.

    The nearest I've been able to find is Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave that kinda of have some of that gonzo intensity.

    by Goddamn_Glamazon

    1 Comment

    1. 500CatsTypingStuff on

      I don’t know of these fit the bill, you will have to judge. They are set in the U.S. or UK but they are all female authors

      Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

      The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

      The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

      Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

      The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert

      The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

      Method 15/33 by Shannon Kirk

      The Power by Naomi Alderman

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