proximoception

I love Mason and Dixon beyond measure. All the Names becomes amazing, in a way you'd never expect. Salter: Light Years and A Sport and a Pastime. And the person I think is as good as pretty much anyone living is Denis Johnson. Try Fiskadoro, or in a different mode The Name of the World. I love Alice Munro and also Alistair Macleod.

And for the recently dead (last decade), the unutterably great Haldor Laxness.