Shirley Jackson, Russell Banks, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Simon Winchester, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Charles Dickens, Tom Robbins, Jane Heller, Malcolm Gladwell, Philip K. Dick, Saki, Arianna Huffington, John Collier, Christopher Buckley, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Arundhati Roy, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, Robert Olen Butler, Roald Dahl, O. Henry.
You can learn about a person by what that person does and what that person says. But you can also learn a lot about a journalist by the company he keeps.