Oh poppycock.
I have a degree in literature with a serious focus in the contemporary, and I read hundreds of books per year, many of them from new authors. If you want to sashay in here and name drop someone you don't like, that's what the internet is for, but if you want to THEN claim that the people who haven't heard of your personal love-to-hate-him author somehow don't read much contemporary literature because otherwise they TOTES would know who you're talking about it, then that's just unutterably silly.
