Writers and the Guitarists Most Like Them

Jonathan Safran Foer and Jimi Hendrix

-Eclectic, pastiche, inventive, profound, playful

Junot Diaz and Tom Morello

-Politically charged, whimsical, innovative

Michael Chabon and Eric Clapton

Celebrated, epic, gorgeously precise, maybe a touch overrated

Barbara Kingsolver and Stevie Ray Vaughn

Earthy, accessible, Southern, heartfelt

Cormac McCarthy and Richard Thompson

Downtrodden, layered, hauntingly beautiful

Jonathan Samuels holds a lot of guitars. He works in a bookstore in New Orleans.