The second in an occasional series of lists of favourite things. This time round it's the one everybody always asks; favourite authors. I've said elsewhere on this site that my own work is likely more influenced by music than it is by other witers, though I do read a tremendous amount too. Here are some of the authors that have stuck with me over the years.
And: Martin Amis * William Blake * William S Burroughs * Dennis Cooper * William Gibson * Allen Ginsberg * Milan Kundera * H P Lovecraft * Bill McKibben * Vladimir Nabokov * Edgar Allan Poe * H G Wells * Robert Anton Wilson *