I'm not a writer really just a curious reader. I dont have any acedemic or artistic credentials. I cant help loving Hemmingway , though I prefer him sans machismo which doesent happen that often. I like Martin Amis, Charles Buckowski, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf , Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett to name a few. I'm fascinated by the so called "modernist" writers of the early 20th century despite finding some of the books very hard work.