Lacuna Moon

I’m very much into writing and authors that I can pull inspiration from at this time.  Any suggestions?  I like Kafka, Sartre, Salinger, Lovecraft, Hemingway — all are circa 1940-1960 authors.  I started reading “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath and have enjoyed the first 25 pages….  But I am hungry for others.

I tend to like “old fashioned” writers (to coin another student in my last writing class).  I did read some Updike yesterday evening for the first time (okay, second time, but I was prolly too young for Run, Rabbit, Run when I read it back in the ’80s).  I enjoyed the Tobias Wolf piece I read recently and I adore BAT by Copote.  I’m hungry for other influences for my writing — with the intent of expanding those influences to cover up that I am emulating them.

Thanks.