I'm Sara, a juniorish transfer student from Queens with an extensive library of books that are only half read. Bookstores are a dangerous place to let me loose. Of the books and authors I have managed to read, however, I've got some favorites:
I've been on a DH Lawrence kick since high school and feel compelled to buy everything he's ever written. He was a revolutionary for his time and its thanks to him that we can say 'fuck' in proper literature and let women talk about enjoying sex. I relish the fact that his writings were banned for years for their shameless content.
Ernest Hemingway makes me want to summer in France or Spain and take a lover. His style--grammar, sentence structure, and dialogue--removes me from New York and puts me where ever his story lies, so that I sip on red wine and toss and turn in the French summer heat with him. I want to write like that.
Another great favorite of mine is Augusten Burroughs. I've read everything he's ever written--the very good and the very, very bad--and I most admire his humor. When he's at his best, he flows and my laughter and tears are at his mercy.
Recently I've been getting into post-colonial English writers like Coetzee and Rushdie. The culture and societal issues they write about fascinate me. I especially like Rushdie's story-telling skills. I wish I could spin a story the way he can.
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