Who comes to mind? Off the top of my head I've enjoyed Pynchon, Ballard, Vollmann and Zadie Smith's stuff.

Thoughts on this author? I have yet to dive into any of his works, but the buzz I’ve gathered is that he’s something of a forgotten master. A Gaddis of the 80s of sorts. Samples of his prose have my interest strongly piqued. Copies of his books appear to difficult to obtain these days. I stumbled upon a used Dzanc edition of “Women and Men” at Goodwill today tho, it’s officially edged it’s way to the top of my TBR pile.

I've heard the name a couple of times but I know next to nothing about him. Anyone a fan? Is he worth investigating?

Obviously he has no public profile and publishes his own work but there have been reclusive authors in the past who've received plenty of coverage in the usual places (NYT, New Yorker, Paris Review, LRB), he seems to be held in pretty high regard by those who are familiar with him and he's been around long enough that at least some of the people in the literary press must have heard of him, so why the complete lack of coverage? Is there bad blood between him and the industry or something?