The Secret Oral History (Bennington College in the 1980s) via ProQuest- This link opens in a new window
"Bennington College, Vermont. Fall of 1982. A new freshman class. Among its heirs and heiresses, artists and rebels, druggies and poseurs: the future Gen X literary stars Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. What happened over the next four years—and beyond—would spark not just gossip and myth (and possible Ph.D. theses) but also some of the authors’ greatest novels. Return to a hothouse campus like no other . . ."