72. Steve Almond

My Life in Heavy Metal.

It happens once a year. Maybe twice. I come across an author who is so original and inspiring and just right.

Almond is one such author. How he writes about love and sex and relationships, but he transcends all that with seeming effortlessness. It is as if a newer plane of truth speaks to him, and he alone is able to divine so much more than the rest of us.

A writer to imitate. Wholesale.