Brat Pack (literary)  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search  The expression "literary Brat Pack"
refers to a group of young, East-coast American authors,
primarily including Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz and Jay
McInerney, who emerged in USA in the 1980s.[1][2] It is a twist
on the label brat pack that had previously been applied to a
group of young American actors earlier that decade.  A 1987
article in the free New York newspaper Village Voice, presented
the authors as the new faces of literature. Intended
pejoratively, the nickname was illustrated by an image that
collaged the authors faces onto the bodies of infants. Yet their
impact on literature and their vast popularity rendered this
nickname an affectionate branding of the new wave of young
minimalist authors. Each presented a particular challenge to
established literary criticism: McInerney's debut novel, Bright
Lights, Big City, was told entirely in second-person singular.
Janowitz's Slaves of New York explored themes