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LAURA ROBERTS: This week, the Huffington Post made a list of what they described as “The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers.” With authors like Amy Tan, Jonathan Safran Foer and Junot Diaz on their list, I feel they’ve forgotten a few. Here are my top 10 most overrated American authors (which, BTW, completely leaves out the most overrated authors, globally, but I guess HuffPo is all about critiquing the stuff that hits closest to home):

HOWARD MEGDAL: While stipulating that these are subjective evaluations, I did have issue with a fair number of The Huffington Post’s list, written by Anis Shivani. Continue reading →