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Other influential authors of this decade include Bret Easton Ellis, known for novels about depraved yuppies; [35] Irvine Welsh, known for his portrayals of Scotland's drug-addicted working class youth; [36] and Chuck Palahniuk, known for his characters' bizarre attempts to escape bland consumer culture. [37]
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack [ 1 ] and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. [ 2 ]
In the September/October 2005 issue of Pages magazine, the literary Brat Pack was identified as Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney, and Mark Lindquist. McInerney and Janowitz were based in New York City. Others affiliated with this group include Susan Minot, Donna Tartt, Peter Farrelly and David Leavitt.
Producer Edward R. Pressman says he met with David Lynch and Tim Burton before finding the right director.
American Psycho is a satirical horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991.The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, vain Manhattan investment banker who lives a double life as a serial killer.
Bret Easton Ellis: Drug abuse, sexual content, language and a bisexual main character 1985 — — — The Librarian of Basra: Jeanette Winter: Violence, unsuited to age group, promotion of Islam, "un-American" content [12] 2005 96 — — Life is Funny: E.R. Frank: Sexual content 2000 — 40 — A Light in the Attic: Shel Silverstein
Glamorama is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. Glamorama is set in, and satirizes, the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism . Time describes the novel as "a screed against models and celebrity".
In 2006, Bret Easton Ellis declared the novel "one of the three great books of my generation." [13] In 2009, the website The Millions polled 48 writers, critics, and editors, including Joshua Ferris, Sam Anderson, and Lorin Stein; [14] the panel voted The Corrections the best novel since 2000 "by a landslide". [15]