Mary Gaitskill is literary fiction. I've never heard of Paolo Bacigalupi.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:32:17 pm PDT #14090 of 28287
Because books.
Strix - Mar 14, 2011 4:34:55 pm PDT #14091 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think he wrote "The Wind-up Girl" which won a...Nebula this year? I haven't read it, though. I think it's kinda steampunky.
I only haven't heard of Coben, but then I am a big ol' bibliophile.
-t - Mar 14, 2011 4:35:06 pm PDT #14092 of 28287
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Heh. I've read The Windup Girl (by Bacigalupi) but I don't actually recognize his name (I googled).
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:06 pm PDT #14093 of 28287
Because books.
Oh! I've heard really good things about The Wind-up Girl, but I guess I hadn't heard his name.
Polter-Cow - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:14 pm PDT #14094 of 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mary Gaitskill (I'm guessing a mystery writer?)
Mary Gaitskill writes very kinky short stories.
Though admittedly, only Bacigalupi due to a free Baen book--is he really popular?
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
meara - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:43 pm PDT #14095 of 28287
Harlan Coben whoops got him confused with Lee Child. Who I think of as very similar: Books I read on airplanes. :) Myron Bolitar, ex-sports star, now agent who ends up all up in mysteries and gets shot and stuff.
I hadn't heard of him until I was in a used bookstore in Vietnam and there were tons of his books. But when I came back to the states he seemed to be everywhere.
meara - Mar 14, 2011 4:37:51 pm PDT #14096 of 28287
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
Well, sure, but Harlan Coben and Debbie Macomber have tons of books each--I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"?
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:38:25 pm PDT #14097 of 28287
Because books.
Mary Gaitskill's written novels, too.
meara, Lee Child writes the Jack Reacher series, which I only know because S. loves them.
Jessica - Mar 14, 2011 4:38:42 pm PDT #14098 of 28287
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wind-Up Girl was fantastic.
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:40:56 pm PDT #14099 of 28287
Because books.
I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"
That's what I was wondering, because he's only written two novels so far, and one of them just came out last year. The awards are great, but they don't make him quite a household name at this point.