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Less than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis (Simon & Schuster, 208 pp., $15.95)

Ransom, by Jay McInerney (Vintage Contemporaries, 279 pp., $5.95, paperback)

About the Author

Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.

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Less than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis (Simon & Schuster, 208 pp., $15.95)

Ransom, by Jay McInerney (Vintage Contemporaries, 279 pp., $5.95, paperback)

About the Author

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.