Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

[britomart_is]

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don't have to be listed in order of relevance to you.

• Robin McKinley
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Flannery O'Connor
• Alicia Erian
• Sherman Alexie
• Lorrie Moore
• Neil Labute
• William Faulkner
• Charles Dickens
• Robert Frost
• Joan Didion
• Lucy Lane Clifford
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Kurt Vonnegut

(Cheating!)

• Anne Lamott
• Junot Diaz
• Martin McDonagh
• Mary Zimmerman
• Roald Dahl!
• Frank O'Hara
• Tracy Letts

Comments

[fourfreedoms.livejournal.com]

Looking at this makes me want to dig out my copy of The Blue Sword.

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

I mean really, is that ever a bad impulse?

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

McKinley's Deerskin. I can't even tell you the number of times I've read that book!