Brat Pack (literary)

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The Literary Brat Pack was a term created by the media to refer to a group of young authors in the 1980s. In the September/October 2005 issue of Pages magazine, the literary brat pack is identified as Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Mark Lindquist, and Jay McInerney. McInerney and Janowitz were based in New York City. Lindquist lived in Venice, California, and Ellis moved from Sherman Oaks (in Los Angeles) to Manhattan after the success of Less Than Zero.

The term was flexible and some publications, including Spy Magazine, occasionally included other authors such as Peter Farrelly and Donna Tartt. In an article entitled "Where Are They Now?" Pages magazine reported that the four original brat pack authors socialized, but that they did not have that much in common other than they were young, well hyped, and their books were aggressively marketed to the youth audience.