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| - | '''Bret Easton Ellis''' (born [[March 7]], [[1964]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]) is an [[American literature|American author]]. He is considered to be one of the major [[Generation X]] authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary [[Brat Pack (literary)|Brat Pack]], which also included [[Tama Janowitz]] and [[Jay McInerney]]. He has called himself a moralist, although he has often been pegged as a [[nihilism|nihilist]]. His characters are young, generally vacuous people, who are aware of their depravity but choose to enjoy it. The novels are also linked by common, recurring characters, and [[dystopia|dystopic]] locales (such as [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and [[New York City|New York]]).{{GFDL}} | + | '''Bret Easton Ellis''' (born [[March 7]], [[1964]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]) is an [[American literature|American author]]. He is considered to be one of the major [[Generation X]] authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary [[Brat Pack (literary)|Brat Pack]], which also included [[Tama Janowitz]] and [[Jay McInerney]]. He has called himself a moralist, although he has often been pegged as a [[nihilism|nihilist]]. His characters are young, generally vacuous people, who are aware of their depravity but choose to enjoy it. The novels are also linked by common, recurring characters, and [[dystopia|dystopic]] locales (such as [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and [[New York City|New York]]). |
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| + | :''White'' is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from ''Less Than Zero'' to ''American Psycho'', Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "[[woke]]" cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, ''White'' is a clarion call for [[freedom of speech]] and artistic freedom. | ||
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Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He has called himself a moralist, although he has often been pegged as a nihilist. His characters are young, generally vacuous people, who are aware of their depravity but choose to enjoy it. The novels are also linked by common, recurring characters, and dystopic locales (such as Los Angeles and New York).
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- White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke" cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, White is a clarion call for freedom of speech and artistic freedom.
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