Bret Easton Ellis Twitter: Pins Bitter Tweets Against Deceased Writer David Foster Wallace

The creator of "American Psycho'" Bret Easton Ellis is known for his rather harsh, insulting Twitter tirades.  But making a dead man the brunt of such an abusive rant seems a bit much, even for the outspoken and uncensored Ellis. Even so, Ellis posted a massive Twitter tirade on Thursday targeting David Foster Wallace - the legendary writer who committed suicide in 2008 - in yet another lengthy onslaught.

Supposedly, Ellis was in the middle of reading a biography about Wallace's life entitled "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story" (written by D.T. Max) when he was overcome with the sudden urge to completely bash the "Infinite Jest" writer. Over an eight-hour long period on Thursday, Sept. 6, Ellis launched this heated commentary:

‏@BretEastonEllis: "Reading D.T. Max's bio of DFW and OMG is the solemnity of the David Foster Wallace myth on a purely literary level borderline sickening..."

@BretEastonEllis: "Anyone who finds David Foster Wallace a literary genius has got to be included in the Literary Doucebag-Fools Pantheon..." (by the way Ellis, it's *douchebag).

@BretEastonEllis: "David Foster Wallace carried around a literary pretentiousness that made me embarrassed to have any kind of ties to the publishing scene..."

‏@BretEastonEllis: "Saint David Foster Wallace: a generation trying to read him feels smart about themselves which is part of the whole bullshit package. Fools."

‏@BretEastonEllis: "Reading D.T. Max's bio I continue to find David Foster Wallace the most tedious, overrated, tortured, pretentious writer of my generation..."

@BretEastonEllis: "David Foster Wallace was so needy, so conservative, so in need of fans--that I find the halo of sentimentality surrounding him embarrassing."

@BretEastonEllis: "DFW is the best example of a contemporary male writer lusting for a kind of awful greatness that he simply wasn't able to achieve. A fraud."

‏@BretEastonEllis: "Whether he's playing tennis with Jay McInerney, beating up Mary Karr or pissing all over Philip Roth: David Foster Wallace is insufferable."

And in response to a Huffington Post article written about his Twitter actions:

‏@BretEastonEllis: "This has got to be one of the most solemnly humorless things I've ever read: Why We're Unfollowing Bret Easton Ellis" (with this link).

It's safe to say that many Wallace fans were none to impressed with Ellis' comments, and angrily tweeted their opinions back.

What's worse - a fake celebrity Twitter death hoax, or having a celebrity bash another celebrity who's already dead? hm...