What authors (if any) do you get excited about when they have a new book coming out? I can't really think of anybody's stuff that I'm just waiting for another by. There's plent of living authors work I've enjoyed, but haven't been so riveted as to read everything they've written. I'm sure the usual suspects will appear: Hornby, Sedaris, Rice, King, etc., I'm interested to know what other living authors people are digging on.
I've said it before on another thread. . .I wait outside for the doors to open for a book by Don DeLillo.
Anyone you would recommend more than others? After a quick survey, White Noise looks pretty interesting.
Underworld is his masterpiece but it's his longest book. White Noise, Libra (JFK/Lee Harvey Oswald) or Mao II (terrorism) would be a good first book to read. White Noise has received the most critical praise.
I'd generally reply Richard Ford, but his last couple haven't been as good as his earlier works. Still better than most fiction by contemporary writers, though, so I'll definitely pick up whatever he comes out with.
After reading Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," I can't wait for his next book.
Whenever these writers come out with a new book, I usually buy it immediately. (Now whether I actually get around to reading it soon thereafter...) Toni Morrison Salman Rushdie David Lodge Nick Hormby Thomas Pynchon (hypothetically speaking, for the most part)
Both of my brothers love this book. I've almost picked it up a few times now, as I'm pretty sure I'm going to like it too. Just haven't had the time for it.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is my favorite. It's his longest, but just a senstaional book, with some really unforgettable passages.
Michael Chabon is proof that Pitt's English Department isn't all bad! The authors I wait for are usually mind candy or by genre, such as Maeve Binchy Lillian Jackson Braun Thomas Gifford Sue Grafton Robert Massie Edward Rutherford Alison Weir I'm in a real mind candy mode lately; too much serious stuff going on to dwell on misery! When I do get into more serious reading, it tends to be historical in nature - then I go by the era, not the author.
I really liked Kavalier and Clay. I'm sure Summerland is good, too, but I can't tell because my wife loaned out from under me when I was in the middle of the first chapter.
Fred Chappell. His recurring character Joe Robert Kirkman is one of the great American fiction characters ever.