document.write("<p>This is a long list, so I've divided these into the categories they're most frequently associated with. Please note that I'm leaving off most speculative fiction authors currently publishing as speculative fiction authors: I've got too many friends in the genre to list favorites without hurting anyone's feelings.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Prose fiction:<\/b>\n<ul><li>Douglas Adams<li>M.T. Anderson<li>A.S. Byatt<li>Lewis Carroll<li>Roald Dahl<li>Mark Danielewski<li>Jeffrey Eugenides<li>George Saunders<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Playwrights:<\/b>\n<ul><li>Edward Albee<li>Caryl Churchill<li>Warren Ellis<li>Rebecca Gilman<li>Stephen Adly Guirgis<li>Patrick Marber<li>Martin McDonagh<li>Yasmina Reza<li>Peter Shaffer<li>Will Shakespeare<li>G.B. Shaw<li>Wallace Shawn<li>Tom Stoppard<li>August Wilson<li>Many of my favorite new plays of late have been penned by ensemble theatre companies. Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/lgpublic.pbwiki.com\/WebTheatreCompanies\">my theatre company list<\/a> for information on these writing ensembles.<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Comic books or strips:<\/b>\n<ul><li>Berke Breathed<li>Jeffrey Brown<li>Joey Comeau and Emily Horne<li>Frank Miller<li>Alan Moore<li>Grant Morrison<li>Ryan North<li>Bill Watterson<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Non-fiction:<\/b>\n<ul><li>Randy Cohen<li>Judith Martin (Miss Manners)<li>David Rakoff<li>William Safire<li>Many of my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/lgpublic.pbwiki.com\/WebPodcasts\">podcasts<\/a> are basically precomposed non-fiction writing, so that list may give a better picture of where I'm sating my cravings these days.<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reading currently(ish): Carl Wilson's <i>A Journey to the End of Taste<\/i>, <i>Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom<\/i>, <i>Soon I Will Be Invincible<\/i>\n<p>");