Recent Reading: Avalon

At least in my opinion, Nell Zink is a writer that should not appeal to most readers. She is clever and ironic and not afraid to be deeply different. I find her quite funny, but I suspect many readers would hate her or be bored by her. 

Have you read Zink?

There are of course other writers I have enjoyed for the quality of their prose and their sense of humor that, perhaps, not everyone appreciates like Paul Beatty in the Sellout, Mark Leyner in Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, Thomas Pynchon in Mason & Dixon or Whit Stillman's picture Metropolitan.

Are there writers, filmmakers, or other artists you love that people in your life do not see the appeal of?