{"id":1117,"date":"2009-04-24T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/the-return-of-bret-easton-ellis.html"},"modified":"2009-04-24T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T19:19:00","slug":"the-return-of-bret-easton-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/the-return-of-bret-easton-ellis.html","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Bret Easton Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SfIhtFNanwI\/AAAAAAAAAQc\/HSJHq7OBNhw\/s1600-h\/160px-Bret_Easton_Ellis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SfIhtFNanwI\/AAAAAAAAAQc\/HSJHq7OBNhw\/s320\/160px-Bret_Easton_Ellis.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>NEW yorker scribe dana goodyear turned out an engaging &#8220;talk of the town&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2009\/04\/27\/090427ta_talk_goodyear\">piece<\/a> on brat pack novelist bret easton ellis and the new film made of his story collection &#8220;the informers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i&#8217;ve had several encounters with the &#8220;less than zero&#8221; author over the years, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/la-et-ellis23mar08,0,6276598.story\">HERE<\/a> is one of the latimes pieces i&#8217;m proudest of. the piece looks at his early breakout, the backlash against &#8220;american psycho,&#8221; the gradual assumption that he was some kind of 80s relic like duran duran, and the underground appreciation of him among bona fide intellectual types like a.o. scott, alex ross and others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>it&#8217;s also one of\u00a0the longest piece i ever written:\u00a0it was envisioned by my genius editor maria russo as the first of a &#8220;reassessments&#8221; series that would consider major west coast writers and wrestle with their critical reputations. because maria and i were both drop-kicked form the times the following year,\u00a0this stands as the first and only in that ambitious series.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>bret was a cool guy to hang with.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bret_easton_ellis\">wikipedia<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW yorker scribe dana goodyear turned out an engaging &#8220;talk of the town&#8221; piece on brat pack novelist bret easton ellis and the new film made of his story collection &#8220;the informers.&#8221; i&#8217;ve had several encounters with the &#8220;less than zero&#8221; author over the years, and HERE is one of the latimes pieces i&#8217;m proudest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165,35,268,30,511,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-80s","7":"category-books","8":"category-bret-easton-ellis","9":"category-los-angeles","10":"category-maria-russo","11":"category-new-yorker","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}