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Aeschylus - The Oresteia freakin' rocks!
William Shakespeare - Goes without saying
Jonathan Swift - Vicious vicious sense of humor; a Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's travels are his masterpieces.
Franz Kafka - The Trial and the Metamorphosis completely changed my life--but not into bug!
Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time is incomparable
James Joyce - Ulysses was magnificent, and Finnegans Wake…there is nothing in the world like Finnegans Wake. It will continue to both confound and excite people for all eternity, i think.
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch is just beautiful madness
Harold Pinter - This is the man who first showed me how great theater could really be; Old Times is my favorite play, but I love all of his work.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Kafka's Latin bastard son, his works are beautiful and moving and profound. One Hundred Years of Solitude is my favorite.
Jorge Luis Borges - The master of short masterpieces. Labyrinths is a great collection.
Samuel R. Delany - Anyone who can write a book like Dahlgren is a genius in my mind.
Clive Barker - Such a stunning imagination and a brilliant storyteller. Loved Imajica and the Books of Blood.
And last but not least:
Federico Garcia Lorca - My favorite poet. I've never encountered any poet who could so utterly and beautifully describe Longing and Desire and Death ("No one understood the perfume of the dark magnolia of your womb…" "Through the Arch of Elvira, i want to see you go, to feel your thighs, and break into tears" "…her thighs eluded me like startled fish…" "…tomorrow, loves will become stones, and Time a breeze that drowses in the branches…" "I will leave my mouth between your legs, my soul in photographs and lilies, and in the dark wake of your footsteps…")
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