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Andy McNabb

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How in the hell has George Saunders not been brought up wtf?

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Thomas Pynchon and Don Delillo

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There's a lot of authors here I love so I'll mention one who isn't here.

Christopher Moore.

He writes fantastic, absurd, loving stories.

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No love for Dave Eggers? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was so so excellent, and there were sentences in You Shall Know Our Velocity! that made me weep with joy.

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