So many books are inextricably connected with friendships. I still remember the moment in the 1970s when a friend insisted I read Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis while we were waiting for his Greyhound in a snowstorm. He nearly missed his bus when we made a mad dash for a nearby bookstore. On another occasion I was leaving a friend’s house in Toronto when she handed me a copy of John Crowley’s Little, Big, a book that remains a favorite to this day. A few years ago, my friend Tim passed away. Our friendship was based on words – we never met in the real world, just online. Tim, a writer and instructor of writing during his life, was well read and often recommended authors to me. Here are few, which include some old friends and some yet to meet.
Paul West
Frank Kafka
Adolpho Biyo Carares
Elias Canetti
Borges
Silvina Ocampo
Julio Cortazar
Robert Walser
Thomas Ligotti
Walter Benjamin
Robert W. Chambers
Poe
Umberto Echo
Gerard de Nerval
Vladimir Nabokov
Hugh Walpole: The Best Supernatural
William Sansom
Hoffmann
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Bernhard
Blanchot
Stanislaw Lem
Jean Paulhan
Amnesiac's Library 