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Read all the editors' answers to Duotrope's interview question: If you publish writing, who are your favorite writers? If you publish art, who are your favorite artists? Learn more.
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Q: If you publish writing, who are your favorite writers? If you publish art, who are your favorite artists?
A: James Nolan, Tomas Tranströmer
A: We do not focus on displaying personal favourites of any kind; our magazine focuses on our contributors and the creations they want to show to the world.
A: My tastes range widely, from the timeless insight of Leo Tolstoy and Jane Austen to the contemporary magic of Kazuo Ishiguro, Andre Alexis, and Susanna Clarke. Broadly speaking, I like books that do it all.
A: Some of our current favorite writers include Roberto Carlos Garcia, Lucille Clifton, Marie Howe, and Jericho Brown.
A: Natalie Diaz, Rachel Mennies, Morgan Parker, K. Iver, Diane Seuss, Emilia Phillips, Stephanie Burt, Brian Teare, T.C. Tolbert, CA Conrad
A: Favorite writers are Leslie Nneka Arimah, Teju Cole, Jennifer Makumbi, Haruki Murakami, Kasho Ishiguro, Joan Didion, Jonathan Tel, and Zadie Smith.
A: Here’s some writers that I find witty: Oscar Wilde, Sue, Townsend, Douglas Adams, Roddy Doyle, Nora Ephron, James Thurber, John Clarke, Spike Milligan, and Garrison Keillor, to name but a few. Good examples of what we publish can be found here: https://witcraft.org/category/latest-wit/monthly-prize-winners/
A: Our tastes are eclectic, but some of our favorite writers include Kurt Vonnegut, Italo Calvino, Anne Lamott, Philip K. Dick, George Saunders, Neil Gaiman, Mark Twain, Bill Oakley, Charles Simic, Jillian Tamaki, Craig Thompson, David Small, Lynda Barry, Joy Harjo, Ada Limón, Louise Erdrich, David Small, Zadie Smith, Daniel Woodrell, Laura McHugh, and on and on and on…
A: It wouldn't be fair for me to single out some of our writers or artists as personal favorites. But in the world of authors outside the Hard Case Crime family, three favorites are Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene and (a very different style) Kurt Vonnegut. Some artists I love but that we came around too late to publish include James Avati, James Bama, and Robert Maguire (though Maguire's daughter did kindly give us access to some of his unpublished work after his death).
A: Our favorite writers are Toni Morrison, Allison Joseph, Oliver de la Paz, Diane Seuss, Jennifer Franklin, Terrance Hayes, Danez Smith, Franny Choi, Fatimah Asghar, David Groff, Yoko Ogawa, Sandra Cisneros, Warsan Shire, Kim Addonizio, Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminski, William Shakespeare, Eve Ensler, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ross Gay, Jodi Picoult, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bass, Marilyn Chin, Marilyn Nelson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Charles Bukowski, Cynthia Cruz, Jane Hirshfield, Louis Glück, Tracy K. Smith, Patricia Smith, Sharon Olds, Natasha Trethewey, Eileen Myles, Carolyn Forche, Nicole Dennis Benn, Jericho Brown, Eduardo C. Corral etc.
A: Asimov, Timothy Zahn, Brian Jacques, N.K. Jemisin.
Joe Kubert, Darwyn Cooke, Roger Dean, Frank Frazetta
A: Where to start? Stephen Graham Jones, Brian Evenson, AC Wise, Usman Malik, Kelly Robson, Brian Hodge, Livia Llewellyn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Rich Larson, Victor LaValle, Catriona Ward, Ted Chiang, Laird Barron, Ken Liu, Kelly Link, Maria Dong, Daniela Tomova, etc.