By: Devin McKinney

Her characters suffer from education, rumination, privilege.

By: Brian Berger

He wrote a stunning semi-meta­fictional masterpiece.

By: Devin McKinney

A fearless (albeit biased) response to American madness.

By: Devin McKinney

She wrote subversive, morbid lesbian pulp.

By: Devin McKinney

He reveals the underside of the human mask.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

An exile, and a prophet of immaturity.

By: Devin McKinney

He spun sinister visions.

By: Devin McKinney

Versatility, strangeness, an unusual intelligence

By: Lynn Peril

Not all millionaires are men, nor gold-diggers blondes.

By: Devin McKinney

Her theme was the corrosive effects of fear and paranoia.

By: Joshua Glenn

A brilliant, ferocious opponent of the “crut.”

By: Devin McKinney

An unwilling agent of social subversion.

By: Brian Berger

“Coarse, brutal, sordid, bestial, but painted with marvelous vividness”

By: Robert Wringham

Freedom, adventure, resource­fulness, mischief.

By: Robert Wringham

Strutting, superior but somehow also self- deprecating.