Tag Archives: Bret Easton Ellis

Not One with a Defect: The 50 Greatest Song Lyrics of Elvis Costello

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Greg Olear

Greg Olear watches detectives, among other things. Continue reading →

Posted in 50 Greatest | Tagged Accidents Will Happen, Alison, Armed Forces, best lyrics of Elvis Costello, Beyond Belief, Blood & Chocolate, Bret Easton Ellis, Brilliant Mistake, Clubland, Elvis Costello, Imperial Bedroom, King of America, Less Than Zero, The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes, Trust, Watching the Detectives, When I Was Cruel, Woody Allen | 34 Comments

The 50 Greatest Literary Character Names of All Time

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Greg Olear

Greg Olear whittles the Who’s Who of all of literature down to the 50 top names. Continue reading →

Posted in 50 Greatest | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Beverly Cleary, Bram SToker, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Don DeLillo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francine Prose, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Herman Melville, Joe Heller, Laurence Sterne, Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Reage, Raoul Dahl, Richard Wright, Robert Heinlein, Roberto Bolano, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Thomas Pynchon, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, Walker Percy, Washington Irving, William Faulkner, William Gibson, William Goldman | 200 Comments

Four Foolproof Ways to Become a Rich, Famous, and Critically-Acclaimed Novelist

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Greg Olear

Against the wishes of his editors, agents, publicists, and fellow novelists, Greg Olear reveals publishing’s best-kept secrets. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture, The Arts | Tagged Augusten Burroughs, Bret Easton Ellis, J.D. Salinger, Jonathan franzen, Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon | 28 Comments

Shelf Love

Posted on January 27, 2013 by A Weeklings Special Feature

Restocking the stacks has never been this fun. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged arrangements, books, Bret Easton Ellis, Bryan Charles, can't do THIS on a Kindle, Celine, Diana Spechler, Donna Tartt, Elfriede Jelinek, Elizabeth Eslami, Francine Prose, fun with books, Ian McEwan, Jillian Lauren, Joe Queenan, Jonathan Tropper, Kate Zambreno, Lenore Zion, Malcolm Gladwell, Miranda July, Rachel McKibbens, Rick Moody, Shya Scanlon, sorting systems, stacks, Wesley Stace | Leave a comment