Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead

With very little happening in the direct world of Bret Easton Ellis right now, we're reduced to discussing books that Bret blurbs. The latest is Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead from Michael Drinkard - a novel based on true events and set during the Revolutionary War. Here's the blurb from Ellis reprinted at the official site for the book.

"Michael Drinkard is a genius fiction writer who has written a truly original historical saga that envelops us in the madness of Revolutionary War America. He's produced a playful, funny, brisk novel - beautiful yet so spare (there's not a wasted word and no fussy lingering over arcane detail) that Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead never loses its focus as a genuinely rousing adventure told at full gallop with a unique contemporary spirit. I have no idea how Michael Drinkard pulled this off but he transports the reader with the skill of a wizard." - Bret Easton Ellis

Ellis also has a smaller blurb on the back cover of this novel:

Michael Drinkard writes like a benevolent Don DeLillo ... one of our generation's most distinctive and original voices.

Thanks to for bringing this to my attention.

I should also mention that BEE's pal Jay McInerney had a new book released on Jan 31 called, The Good Life. Also, here is an interview discussing the book with WTOP radio.