THE WRITERS –
Now like australia it is really hard to name all the amazing writers from the U.S so i m, going to name some of my favourites here ,classic wise there are two that leap out to me Walden Henry David Thoreau ,his account of spend a year (well more actually ) in a log cabin by a lake ,this book is about the simple life being a good neighbour and caring for the natural world and probably one of my ten desert island books if i had to choose ten books ,as fresh today as when it was written. the other is twain not so much the finn and sawyer books thou they are great his innocent abroad is a wonderful glimpse at travel in the europe at 1860’s . Now slightly more up to date is Steinbeck ,no Fitzgerald is a good writer but in my opinion Steinbeck is the better writer and seems to have caught the depression era so wonderfully ,my favourite is cannery row a tale of down and outs struggling to get by ,but doing so .then there are the giants of post war literature mailer ,Updike and Roth i have enjoyed books by all these writers mailers naked and the dead is one of the best fictionalized accounts of ww2 ever written ,Updike rabbit series paints the post war years so well through one mans life-like him or loathe him or both rabbit is one of the best american characters ever written ,Roth’s plot against america is well wroth reading as a great alternate history ,now some other favourites writers and my favourite books include – Raymond Craver (elephant ), Paul Auster (mr vertigo ),Jonathan Letham (motherless Brooklyn ) .I like a lot more but these are ones i have really enjoyed .
World cup memories –
I can’t start talking about usa in world cup without mentioning Alexi Lalas ,the long red-haired player from the 90’s ,he stared in the 1994 world cup ,a lot of the us players over the years have played in europe ,Cobi Jones from 1994 played for Coventry and numerous others ,i remember the game in france 1998 were America played Iran an amazing swapping of gifts and a good tempered game shows the power of football at its best bring these two polar opposite countries together for 90 minutes
Interesting choices for US writers. I don’t know if I’ve read anything by any of them! I obviously need to change that. Must have been hard to choose only a few 🙂
it was amy ,there is so many to choose from ,all the best stu
Then there’s the postmodernists: Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, David Foster Wallace, David Markson.
yes could put pychon ,missed a lot i like but want give few favourites every one knows us writers ,although infinte jest keeps looking at me like a white whale waiting to be caught lol ,tried readalong last year and got 120 pages in and gave up ,all the best stu