I was pleased to read a Q&A in today's Chronicle book section with Colin McGinn, a Rutgers' philosopher who written about the mind-body problem for the New York Review.  McGinn's new memoir is also reviewed.  Here's a quote from the interview:

The writers I admire are people like Nabokov and some of Martin Amis. I wanted to write a book about being a philosopher that is more literary than philosophers tend to be. Several years ago I published a very technical book called "Logical Properties" and I thought, "This will keep my philosophical credibility up." Because there's no doubt a prejudice exists in the field against writing a popular work. That's also envy, of course.