Innovator of the nonfiction novel, a towering figure in American literature for nearly 60 years. Norman Mailer developed in the 1960s and 1970s a form of journalism that combined actual events, autobiography, and political commentary with the richness of the novel. (See also Truman Capote and the cla

Hypnotic, Mythic, Overflowing, Pioneering, Post-war literature, Power, Primal, Voluminous

Vikram is a budding novelist whose primary focus is speculative fiction. Prashant has been an avid reader of classic science fiction, such as the works of Asimov, Bova, Bradbury and Heinlein, as well as more modern authors such as Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick and Orson Scott Card.

Hi-tech, Hypnotic, Science fiction

In July of 1883, an average middle-class Jewish family in an average suburb of Prague (then in Austria) ushered into the average world a new creature: Franz Kafka. He would never forgive them for this unnatural act of torture. Franz kept his neurosis quietly to himself throughout his childhood, r

Absurd, Anxiety, Dreamy, Dystopic, Existentialist literature, Hallucinatory, Hypnotic, Intense, Modernist literature, Neurotic, Profane