This distinctive writer and performer looks as he usually does onstage: pale bald head unwigged and gleaming, trademark glittering lashes and penciled eyebrows in place, wearing a sloppy red dress and gold strappy heels over socks.
'And her hooves, they've seen many miles.' " Poirier, the author of the well-received story collection "Naked Pueblo," is a distinctive writer, adept at both social satire and a druggy lyricism reminiscent of Denis Johnson and the early Thomas McGuane.
The list has included some truly distinctive writers, like Ms. Morrison, Bernhard Schlink and, notoriously, Jonathan Franzen.
Michael White, the Guardian political commentator and a close friend, described him as "one of the wittiest and most distinctive writers on the Guardian and Observer for 45 years".
Simon Hoggart, one of the wittiest and most distinctive writers on the Guardian and Observer for 45 years, has died from pancreatic cancer, it was announced on Sunday.
And the good writing is more than a tradition: two of the most distinctive writers in the very first Bedside, Norman Shrapnel and A Harry Griffin, were also in Guardian Year 2000.
At the Sydney Writers' festival this week to talk not only about that book but participate in a session on humour, debauchery and manners, here's your chance to put a question to one of the most controversial and distinctive writers of our times.
As a term to cover the most distinctive writers who flourished in the last years of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th, "Romantic" is indispensable but also a little misleading: there was no self-styled "Romantic movement" at the time, and the great writers of the period did not call themselves Romantics.
James Kelman remains one of the most distinctive writers in Britain and, in a climate where snooty critics still chatter about his "barbarian" behaviour and inappropriate dress at the Booker prizegiving ceremony, it is more important than ever that his voice is heard.
One quality that's distinctive among writers of an experimental bent is his limpidity: his prose rarely draws attention to itself; most of the time, the reader is fully occupied imagining what is being recounted and described.
It wasn't until he published The White Castle that he began to find his distinctive and compelling writer's voice.
