politrix

This is me, asking for your help.

I dig Dostoyevksy. I dig Chekov. I heart Hubert Selby Jr., Dave Eggers, and other radom folk. Of the Shakespeare I've either read or seen, King Lear is my favorite. Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad and The Red Badge of Courage by Crane are two books I like. For a long time I read nothing but non-fiction. Now that I'm moving back into a fiction-mode of reading, I have NO idea who is good and what's out there.

I like listening to David Sedaris on This American Life and books on CD, but I will never READ David Sedaris. I'm more prone to write fiction that has humor as it's primary attribute, but for some inexplicable (by me at least) reason, I only like reading heavy stuff. Raskolnikov and Marlowe expressing the darker potentialities of human nature... Selby's junkies on a desparate, frantic search for something else...

So that's what I'm asking here. If anyone has an author, or even just a book, that they believe is so ultimately profound that a hundred years from now it'll be available in every bookstore and still talked about by those who read, and it's fiction, feel free to give it a shout here. If anyone knows of clever ways to find new authors aside from checking mainstream literary reviews that'd be cool too. I tried that today, but everything I saw looked like total shit to me. Ok... that's all. Thanks in advance should anyone take me up on this.