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I didn't think this would be so tough. I suspect a top 20 list would be more representative, while still forcing limitation (e.g., where are the women?!) Maybe a future thread. 1) David Mamet 2) Albert Camus 3) Raymond Carver 4) Kurt Vonnegut 5) Jean-Paul Sartre

I forgot to mention that his story collection Short Dog is also excellent. Not to the exclusion of other his works, of course; it's just the only other thing I've picked up so far.

Reading Chump Change was almost like finding a Buk surrogate for me--certainly the style and material is much closer to Buk than most of Buk's influences. Funny that Fante says that his hero as a novelist is Hubert Selby, particular Selby as the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. LEB certainly...

Dangling in the Tournefortia Can't remember why I picked that one in the college library (1987). Blown away. Cool librarian checking it out for me let me know about "Barfly."