Underrated Writers

The Editors

  • Trevor Jackson (Creekside Review)
  • Jeff Bryant (Syntax of Things)

The Projects

  • 2006 Underrated Writers Project
  • 2005 Underrated Writers Project

The Underrated Writers (2005)

  • Allen, Mary
  • Benedetti, Mario
  • Brite, Poppy Z.
  • Butler, Jack
  • Carrington, Leonora
  • Cendrars, Blaise
  • Clary, Killarney
  • Cote, Andrea
  • Crawford, Stanley
  • D'Ambrosio, Charles
  • Deaver, Philip F.
  • Dexter, Pete
  • Dixon, Stephen
  • Dubris, Maggie
  • Elkin, Stanley
  • Emshwille, Carol
  • Erickson, Steve
  • Estrada, Lucía
  • Fernando Verissimo, Luis
  • Ford, Jeffrey
  • Gann, Kirby
  • Gidley, Tom
  • Hartnett, Sonya
  • Heinemann, Larry
  • Hofmann, Gert
  • Home, Stewart
  • Houellebecq, Michel
  • Huneven, Michelle
  • Isles, John
  • Jones, Tayari
  • Josipovici, Gabriel
  • Kapuscinski, Ryszard
  • Landor, Barth
  • Lennon, J. Robert
  • Magnuson, Mike
  • McCarthy, Tom
  • McGraw, Erin
  • McHugh, Maureen
  • McManus, John
  • Millet, Lydia
  • Mutis, Alvaro
  • O'Connell, Mary
  • Park, Paul
  • Pemberton, Gayle
  • Percy, Benjamin
  • Pittalwala, Iqbal
  • Plascencia, Salvador
  • Quin, Ann
  • Ruland, Jim
  • Ryman, Geoff
  • Sharp, Ellis
  • Stall, Katherine
  • Thomson, Rupert
  • Wells, Kellie
  • Yellin, Tamar

The Contributors (2005)

  • A.M. Correa (Out of the Woods Now)
  • Andrew Gallix (3:AM Magazine)
  • C. Max Magee (The Millions)
  • Carrie A.A. Frye (Tingle Alley)
  • Dan Wickett (Emerging Writers Network)
  • Genevieve Tucker (You Cried For Night)
  • Gwenda Bond (Shaken & Stirred)
  • James Tata
  • Lee Rourke (Scarecrow)
  • Mark Sarvas (The Elegant Variation)
  • Matthew Cheney (The Mumpsimus)
  • Ron Hogan (Beatrice)
  • Sam Jones (Golden Rule Jones)
  • Steve Mitchelmore (This Space)
  • Traver Kauffman (Rake's Progress)

Categories

  • 3:AM (Andrew Gallix) (3)
  • Beatrice (Ron Hogan) (2)
  • Elegant Variation, The (Mark Sarvas) (3)
  • Emerging Writers Network (Dan Wickett) (5)
  • Golden Rule Jones (Sam Jones) (4)
  • James Tata (6)
  • Millions, The (C. Max Magee) (4)
  • Mumpsimus, The (Matthew Cheney) (1)
  • Out of the Woods Now (A.M. Correa) (4)
  • Rake's Progress (Traver Kauffman) (5)
  • Scarecrow (Lee Rourke) (5)
  • Shaken & Stirred (Gwenda Bond) (5)
  • This Space (Steve Mitchelmore) (2)
  • Tingle Alley (CAAF) (6)
  • You Cried For Night (Genevieve Tucker) (1)
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Blaise Cendrars

From Lee Rourke (Scarecrow): "Blaise Cendrars changed the course of modern literature/poetry; it's just that not that many people know this. Read him, read him, read him and see. A writer with a vast imagination, just don't believe everything he tells you."

More about Blaise Cendrars
+  Lee Rourke's article "The Astonished Man"
+  Profile of Cendrars
+  French and English version of his poem "Contrasts"
+  Site officiel du Centre d'Etudes Blaise Cendrars
+  James Sallis' profile of Cendrars

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Stewart Home

From Lee Rourke:  "Stewart Home's anti-narratives rip up and discard the old stuffy notions of literary fiction once and for all. He is disgustingly grotesque and ultimately modern; put simply, a breath of fresh air."

More on Stewart Home
+  The Stewart Home Society
+  A bibliography
+  3:AM interview
+  Stewart Home's literature map
+  Home's Wikipedia entry

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Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq, according to Lee Rourke, deserves more attention because he is "a giant; he is everything a great writer should be: insouciant, bold, crafty and wise. A relentless prophet of doom, unafraid and unhinged--quite possibly the nearest thing we have to genius this minute. The mark where the novel has reached."

From a site dedicated to all things Houellebecq comes this apt description:

Michel Houellebecq is a sort of prophet. He is gifted with the very rare capacity to perceive the world with an unrivaled degree of sensitivity. And he has the talent to convey his perceptions to us. This is what certain people have trouble accepting. They do not want to be told of the world as it is, nor of the suffering of all human beings, torn between their aspirations and reality. With devastating humor, and with lyrical touches capable of reaching the depths of the soul, he creates real characters, who live at the heart of a real world, today’s world.

More about Michel Houellebecq
+  Profile at the Guardian Unlimited and at the Observer
+  KCRW's Bookworm talks with Houellebecq (audio)
+  Houellebecq's books at Powell's
+  John Derbyshire of the National Review reads Houellebecq
+  Rain Taxi review of Houellebecq's H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
+  Houellebecq's Wikipedia entry

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Ann Quin

This writer, says scarecrow's Lee Rourke, "is the forgotten gem of the British experimentalists. Forget B.S. Johnson: why, oh why, isn't there a Biography of her remarkable life?" Before her death in 1973, Quin wrote four "mouth-wateringly beautiful, wonderful books": Tripticks, Passage, Three, and Berg. This last was made into the 1989 film Killing Dad.

More about Ann Quin
+  Giles Gordon on reading Berg
+  Quin's page at the Complete Review (loads of links)

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Ellis Sharp

Scarecrow's Lee Rourke sends this writer's name to us. "Sharp is an aloof Marxist metafictionist and about as avant-garde as it gets. His numerous books take in everything that matters before spitting it all out, newly formed, and shining. All we have to do is pay attention."

More about Ellis Sharp
+  Sharp's frequently and extensively updated blog
+  An interview with Ellis Sharp
+  Zoilus Press's author bio and biblio on Sharp (scroll down)
+  Sharp's books available on Amazon UK

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