A Bermuda raised professor and critic is making waves with the release of a book highly critical of the American literary establishment.

'A Reader's Manifesto', a $9.95 paperback by B.R. Myers, went on sale in the United States last week.

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, 'A Reader's Manifesto' goes further than an article in the Atlantic Monthly last year in which he dissected works by prize winning American writers like Annie Proulx, Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy and condemns their "sloppy writing... filled with errant syntax, empty metaphors and numbing obscurity".

The piece also slammed the literary critics for gushing at such bad writing and they responded with a chorus of condemnation for the man they considered "annoying" and "ridiculous".

Mr. Myers, 39, whose mother the former Patricia Kemsley (now Mrs. Warren Cooke) is Bermudian, speaks four languages and has a doctorate in North Korean Literature.

He told the paper that his research into Korean literature meant reading a lot of "really bad books" and gave him plenty of training for his explorations of American literature.

'A Reader's Manifesto', The Wall Street Journal reports, contains a "facetious list of 'Ten Rules for 'Serious' Writers' with captions including 'Sprawl' 'Equivocate' and 'Bore".

Mr. Myers concludes: "Make sure everyone understands that while the English language might have worked for pikers like Shakespeare, it's a couple of sizes too small for what you have to say."