Brat Pack

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Tue, 05/05/2009 - 20:17

PGoutis01

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From: Michigan

Joined: 06/03/2004

I did a search on the literary "Brat Pack" of the 80's.

Now I know we all know Bret Easton Ellis. His writing is among my favorite and probably worth of my top ten list.

And Jay McInerny. I loved Bright Lights, Big City. I really haven't read anything else by him. Although his new short story book looks really good and I'll probably be picking that one up... soon.

But nobody here talks about Tama Janowitz. I read through her the excerpts of her short story collection Slaves of New York and it looked really good.

I've also seen Mark Lindquist mentioned among the "Brat Pack" yet have never heard of any of his work.

Does anybody have opinions? Thoughts? Suggestions?

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Tue, 05/05/2009 - 20:21

PGoutis01

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From: Michigan

Joined: 06/03/2004

Wikipedia has:

Bret Easton Ellis
Tama Janowitz
Jay McInerney
Mark Lindquist

Others affiliated with this group include Susan Minot, Donna Tartt, Peter Farrelly and David Leavitt.

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Nachos, every day! Dying sounds great, I don't know why people get so upset about it.

Thu, 05/07/2009 - 09:26

super_canti

Stephen Spencer

From: TX

Joined: 03/27/2009

I've read that Ellis is of the literary Brat Pack, but what exactly qualifies an auther to fall under that category?

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Thu, 05/07/2009 - 11:32

projcon

From: Chattanooga

Joined: 11/25/2006

PGoutis01 wrote:

Wikipedia has:

Others affiliated with this group include...Donna Tartt...

Donna Tartt wrote The Secret History... one of the best books I've ever read that I recommend to anyone with eyes

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Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:47

PGoutis01

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From: Michigan

Joined: 06/03/2004

The literary Brat Pack was the authors in the 80's that made it huge with their first books. They were all young and they all partied hard. The became famous together.

wikipedia wrote:

The "literary Brat Pack" was a term created by the media to refer to a group of young authors in the 1980s. Labelled the "literary brat pack" in a 1987 article in the Village Voice, Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz were presented as the new face of literature: young, iconoclastic and fresh.

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188416 wrote:

Nachos, every day! Dying sounds great, I don't know why people get so upset about it.

Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:49

mirka

Indifferent Dinosaur

From: Tangled up in Blue

Joined: 02/27/2003

projcon wrote:

PGoutis01 wrote:

Wikipedia has:

Others affiliated with this group include...Donna Tartt...

Donna Tartt wrote The Secret History... one of the best books I've ever read that I recommend to anyone with eyes

That's one of my favorites. I too recommend it to anyone and everyone.

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Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:49

PGoutis01

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From: Michigan

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projcon wrote:

PGoutis01 wrote:

Wikipedia has:

Others affiliated with this group include...Donna Tartt...

Donna Tartt wrote The Secret History... one of the best books I've ever read that I recommend to anyone with eyes

Yeah - The Secret History is highly recommended. So beautifully written and a great story. I read that one on the train to Chicago and while I was in Chicago.

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188416 wrote:

Nachos, every day! Dying sounds great, I don't know why people get so upset about it.

Sat, 05/09/2009 - 13:54

PGoutis01

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From: Michigan

Joined: 06/03/2004

Wow, I really thought this thread would be more popular... lol

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188416 wrote:

Nachos, every day! Dying sounds great, I don't know why people get so upset about it.

Sat, 05/09/2009 - 14:17

mikandrewz

From: Chigaco

Joined: 01/05/2003

What? No one's mentioned Candace Bushnell? She's totally a New York party girl. In fact I think in the first season of Sex and the City she goes to a bar in New York where other writers hang out, and it's called Lunar Park.

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Fri, 05/22/2009 - 14:40

mirka

Indifferent Dinosaur

From: Tangled up in Blue

Joined: 02/27/2003

Sorry, Pete, I don't have much to add. I'm not a fan of either Bret Easton Ellis or Jay McInerny

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Barca Boy wrote:

While I was lying on the ground with my head yards away. I told Cujo to log onto the Cult and tell you guys what book I was reading.

Fri, 05/22/2009 - 14:55

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nathaniel parker

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From: Outer spiral arm of Milky Way

Joined: 06/24/2005

Every time I see this thread, I think Judd Nelson wrote a book.

Mon, 05/25/2009 - 10:35

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projcon

From: Chattanooga

Joined: 11/25/2006

nathaniel parker wrote:

Every time I see this thread, I think Judd Nelson wrote a book.

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