I wonder if they pledged frats

I love this tidbit about Bret Easton Ellis and Jonathan Lethem at Bennington; it's part of a longer interview that will be best enjoyed if you're familiar with Ellis's work. His next novel, Imperial Bedrooms, is a kind of sequel to Less Than Zero. (Vice)

Oh, really?
We were in the same class at Bennington.

I didn’t know that. What was he like in school?
Nice. He was a nice guy. I had no idea that he wanted to be a writer. He wasn’t in any of the main workshops. Like Donna Tartt would be in there, and Jill Eisenstadt. You know, the people who really wanted to write were the people who always managed to get into the major workshop that term. And Jonathan never got into any of them. And then I got a galley in the mail a long time after we graduated, and it was for a novel by Jonathan Lethem about talking animals or something. And I was like, “What the hell is this?”