Bret Easton Ellis Breaks Silence On His Public Celebration Of J.D. Salinger's Death

The Evening Herald:

WHEN Catcher in the Rye author JD Salinger died last January, many US literary figures were quick to publicly lament his passing. Not Bret Easton Ellis, who tweeted the following: "Yeah!! Thank God he's finally dead. I've been waiting for this day for-f**king-ever. Party tonight!!!"

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Comments

[1other1]

10:45 PM on 07/26/2010

Absolutely no talent!

[WPF]

01:22 AM on 07/26/2010

Don't have much respect for this guy. You don't put out that type of statement on many people's day of death and expect to be respected.

[Dr Confuso]

08:10 PM on 07/25/2010

After reading this interview, it appears Easton-Ellis is a much bigger self obsessed twit than I thought he was.

[Nathaniel Mills]

12:42 AM on 07/25/2010

46 is the new 16.

[Mort]

10:35 PM on 07/24/2010

I thought the policy here was to not allow celebratory discussion about someone's death. Yet they post a whole article about it! Do as I say and not as I do!

[saltgirl]

08:51 PM on 07/24/2010

Easton Ellis should have thanked Sallinger since he - Easton Ellis - simply light-lifted Sallinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' and plunked it into 'Less Than Zero'.

[calicanuck]

01:30 PM on 07/25/2010

I thought "Less than Zero" was actually modeled after the "The Great Gatsby"...tailor it a bit for an angsty youth culture, transplant to L.A., add a whole lot of cocaine and stir.

[Dehrenstein]

06:45 PM on 07/24/2010

Bret needn't have defended his Tweet at all.

I've always laothed Little Jerry Salinger (as Carol Matthau called him.) He's the perfect pseudo-intellectual author for a deeply anti-intellectual culture.

Bret's "Glamorama" is immeasurably superior.

[Veronica]

06:47 PM on 07/24/2010

Reading your post, I could actually hear the pompous sniff.

[calicanuck]

07:28 PM on 07/24/2010

...at the poppers.

[lmclaurin]

07:58 PM on 07/24/2010

Oh, he "needn't"? You sound, like, so intelligent. You also spelled loathed incorrectly. I've loathed incorrect spelling for a long time.

[CPAwADD]

10:55 AM on 07/25/2010

Clearly a typo rather than a misspelling, but I agree with your sentiment.

[TheWanderer]

12:50 PM on 07/25/2010

I know how you feel. I loathe incorrect punctuation. The question mark in "needn't" should be inside the parenthesis, not outside.

[Chonfi]

06:41 PM on 07/24/2010

"Clay is now a shallow and sleazy Hollywood screenwriter, more disconnected and amoral than ever, who uses his status to bed budding actors and actresses."

Names of the actors and actresses Clay has allegedly slept with?

[niceguysneverfinish]

07:02 PM on 07/24/2010

He's using the creators name a bit too much for my taste.... yet I did enjoy the book.

[Josh Sezer]

06:16 PM on 07/24/2010

I feel like the people who hate Catcher, tend to hate it because of High School. When we read books in high school, we tend to automatically dismiss them. It's only when we go back and reread them after a couple years do we truly appreciate them for what they are. Frankly, no freshman is going to have a good taste in literature.

[calicanuck]

07:29 PM on 07/24/2010

It is a good book, neither great nor terrible. But tell me...where *do* the ducks in central park go in the winter?

[Strontium90]

05:59 PM on 07/24/2010

I read the article and couldn't find where this guy "breaks his silence"; instead, he basically refuses to explain. Another headline FAIL.

[rivahcat]

05:49 PM on 07/24/2010

"American Psycho" truly disturbed me. I can't help but wonder about people like Ellis and Stephen King with these dark, twisted writings; thank dog they're WRITING these thoughts and fantasies and not living them out!

[ImJasonDiamond]

05:36 PM on 07/24/2010

Even though I'm a fan of both Salinger and Ellis, I don't find this remotely interesting, because he already talked about this MONTHS AGO: http://vol1brooklyn.com/2010/07/24/huffington-post-books-attempts-to-create-bret-easton-ellis-scoop-fails/

Check your sources.

[My Good Babushka]

04:35 PM on 07/24/2010

I thought American Psycho was pretty good. But you can be a pretty good writer, and a pretty bad human being at the same time.

[calicanuck]

06:12 PM on 07/24/2010

What if you're like me and you're a a hack writer *and* a bad person? I mean, where do you go?

[My Good Babushka]

09:13 PM on 07/24/2010

ummmm, at least you have your honesty!? :)

[TheWanderer]

12:32 PM on 07/25/2010

Are you Ann Coulter?

[jubo]

04:15 PM on 07/24/2010

So a has-been pop novelist goes looking for publicity...

[WilliamP]

03:58 PM on 07/24/2010

I'd expect a bit more decorum from the author of 'American Psycho'.