I’ll Be Your Mirror: Andy Warhol’s Writing Degree (Less Than) Zero
Warhol’s name has cropped up time and again – silkscreen-print-fashion – in reviews of Ellis’s work, but never before had the connection been so clearly established. Except by Ellis himself, that is. One of the characters in Glamorama – his most Warholian novel to date – is mocked because she only owns two books: the Bible plus The Andy Warhol Diaries (“and the Bible was a gift”). The inference is that the Diaries only appeal to illiterate hipsters, but the juxtaposition with scripture is just as significant.
Andrew Gallix argues that the hardcore naturalism B.S. Johnson dreamed of was implemented by Andy Warhol.