{"id":7938,"date":"2016-11-12T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T22:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2016-11-14T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:57:19","slug":"the-hedonists-the-provocateur-the-phenom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/12\/the-hedonists-the-provocateur-the-phenom\/","title":{"rendered":"The hedonists. The provocateur. The phenom."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/culture\/art-books-music\/a18422\/literary-brat-pack-donna-tartt-jay-mcinerney\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Harper&#8217;s Bazaar<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>SEX, DRUGS, AND BESTSELLERS: THE LEGEND OF THE LITERARY BRAT PACK<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"link link-txt byline--author-name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/author\/16968\/jason-diamond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Jason Diamond<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hbz.h-cdn.co\/assets\/16\/44\/980x653\/gallery-1478038716-newman2.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Bret Easton Ellis, Gary Fisketjon, and Jay McInerney in June 1987 \/\u00a0<span class=\"image-copyright--copyright\">Patrick McMullan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hedonists. The provocateur. The phenom. The forgotten talent. In the decadent 1980s, the media shipped novelists Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis,\u00a0Tama Janowitz, Donna Tartt and\u00a0Jill Eisenstadt into a loose-knit group known as the &#8220;literary brat pack.&#8221; One member would go on to win a Pulitzer; one would become better known for controversy than fiction; another would exemplify the\u00a0excessive highs and very public lows of the decade; and another would slowly fade from view.<\/p>\n<p>A generation of readers loved them. Critics largely despised them. And for a time, they were celebrated for their youth as much as their work. But they also\u00a0helped change the course of American literature\u2014and looked great doing it. &#8220;I think we made fiction fun again,&#8221; says\u00a0McInerney.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/culture\/art-books-music\/a18422\/literary-brat-pack-donna-tartt-jay-mcinerney\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Harper&#8217;s<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Harper&#8217;s Bazaar SEX, DRUGS, AND BESTSELLERS: THE LEGEND OF THE LITERARY BRAT PACK By\u00a0Jason Diamond Bret Easton Ellis, Gary Fisketjon, and Jay McInerney in June 1987 \/\u00a0Patrick McMullan The hedonists. The provocateur. The phenom. The forgotten talent. In the decadent 1980s, the media shipped novelists Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis,\u00a0Tama Janowitz, Donna Tartt and\u00a0Jill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}