From Seuss To Zizek
I have been tagged by Professor Zero to join in the 25 writers meme "in which you name 25 writers who have influenced you. These are not necessarily your favorite writers or those you most admire, but writers who have influenced you. Then you tag 25 people." I will tag the first 25 volunteers.
I'm not sure what sort of influence was originally intended by this meme, but since I don't self-identify as a writer I will have to construe the influence more broadly. I also find that many on my list, while certainly influential, aren't primarily admired for the beauty of their prose. I was going to do a list in no particular order, but I find that my list does have an order after all. It is in chronological order, starting with those writers that influenced me first. Here goes:
- Dr. Seuss
- P. D. Eastman
- E. B. White
- Roald Dahl
- Maurice Sendak
- E. E. 'Doc' Smith
- Isaac Asimov
- Ray Bradbury
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lewis Carroll
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Joseph Heller
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ludwig Wiggenstein
- Martin Heidegger
- Jacques Derrida
- Karl Marx
- Sigmund Freud
- Herbert Marcuse
- bell hooks
- Judith Butler
- Luce Irigaray
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Trinh T. Minh-ha
- Slavoj Zizek
Trinh T. Minh-ha rocks my world.
ReplyDeleteExcellent choice, Seuss. Although I'm more of a Lewis Carroll guy myself. But no bible!?? Where were you raised agin? The holy ghost is right up there at 2 or 3 for me. Alas.
ReplyDeleteNope, no bible. Even though I was raised in Texas, I escaped the more severe forms of bible thumping due some local church politics that soured my parents on regular church attendance years before I was old enough to do that particular reading.
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