21 brilliant books you’ve never heard of

The editors of GQ asked some notable writers about the most criminally underappreciated books. One entry from the list:John Jeremiah Sullivan suggests American Purgatorio by John Haskell (2005)

I’m surprising myself by naming something so recent. I keep trying to kick it off the top of the list and replace it with something older, weirder, and longer out of print, but it sits there. A novel that