Listed by Jonathan Franzen in “Mr. Difficult,” The New Yorker, 2002
- Thomas Pynchon
- Joseph Heller
- Don DeLillo
- Robert Coover
- William Gaddis
- William Gass
- William Burroughs
- John Barth
- Donald Barthelme
- Barry Hannah
- John Hawkes
- Joseph McElroy
- Stanley Elkin