Who is your favorite writer and why?? I don’t know if I know them but I like to hear about them…

I start first….

After giving a lot of thought about this, I chose Dostoyevsky over Nichos Kazantzakis….. I love Dostoyevsky because I believe he (and not Kierkegaard or Nietzsche) was the founder of existentialism… just that he believed individuals by having faith find meaning in life…

In every story that he wrote ( I have read most of it) he visits and discovers every corner of humans mind …

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hunkalove · 61-69, M

Over my whole life, as a writer, Larry McMurtry has had the biggest influence on me. Nowadays it's Daniel Woodrell who writes what I call "Hillbilly Noir" which is what I write.

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Hillbilly Noir?? That must be an interesting concept…

Straylight · 31-35, F

@hunkalove There’s a genre I’ve not heard of. I’ll have to look him up.

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@Straylight Most Noir fiction and Film Noir is set in big cities. He lives in the Missouri Ozarks and his characters and stories have rural or small-town settings. My favorite novels of his are Give Us a Kiss, Tomato Red, and Death of Sweet Mister.

Straylight · 31-35, F

@hunkalove I had read a book of short stories by Laird Barron that I guess you could describe as hillbilly horror. 🤔