Entertainment Weekly Takes Shot At Ellis
The story is here (subscription required), but thanks to reader Matt K, here is a little snippit of Ellis being lumped into some derogatory comments about Chuck Palahniuk readers:His fans---many of them young men, unemployed, or making do on minimum wage, tattooed and pierced, with black Sharpie pen on their nails and cut-off Dickies and red laces through their Chuck Taylors---lap up his stories, so thrilled are they to be in their hero's presence. See, they didn't really read before. Maybe some Marvel comics or fantasy novels, maybe some Bret Easton Ellis. But they saw this movie Fight Club and something took hold and suddenly they're buying hardcovers and standing in line for three hours to meet a writer."Beating up on Palahniuk seems to be the fashionable thing to do this summer.
- by Karen Varby | 9.26.03 Entertainment Weekly
September 24, 2003
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[1] On Sep-24-2003, martin Torres wrote:that's ridiculous and not even a remotely accurate stereotype
[2] On Dec-24-2003, r.i.p_beat$ wrote:
i read other authors other than ellis...im no hairy tattoo'd 80's casulity.....i hope tammy bruce, ends up like tammy & bruce in glamorama.
and if u dont know...now you know
[3] On Jan-04-2004, Rob wrote:
That is an over-simplified and lazy stereotype of Palahniuk readers. Beneath the machismo surface is an insightfull critique of the perils of post-industrial American society. I love Palahniuk's book and I've read other stuff, I'm not some unemployed moron who feels that his work understands me. In fact I have a BA in English Language and Literature from St. Hugh's College, Oxford University in the UK.