It's been a dozen years since Bret Easton Ellis published a novel. And his latest, The Shards, is a narrative that came to him in 1981 — more than four decades ago — when he was a 17-year-old ...

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Bret Easton Ellis grew up wealthy in Los Angeles, attended the exclusive Buckley School and was a teenager when he began writing what became "Less Than Zero," his debut novel that was published in ...

Bret Easton Ellis complained to Vanity Fair about his former home of New York City, saying "How does anyone live here?" But columnist Steve Cuozzo says the "American Psycho" author has no right to ...

Bret Easton Ellis Is Back to His Regularly Scheduled Programming. In his latest novel, “The Shards,” the author returns to his old tropes: gruesome murder, lonely teenagers and 1980s Los Angeles.

Over the course of many months, the two worked together to create a perfume that they believed Bateman would actually apply. Bergelin wanted the scent to be contrasting, surprisin ...

—Bret Easton Ellis dissects the Charlie Sheen phenomenon, and if you can forgive him for over-relying on the terms “Empire” and “Post Empire,” it’s a fairly convincing piece on why ...

Bret Easton Ellis' 1980s-set novel "The Shards" is now in series development at HBO. Here's why it will work, and what needs to change.

Bret Easton Ellis is at the top of his form here, and “The Shards” will not be a novel to miss in 2023. Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Love him or hate him, Bret Easton Ellis, perhaps unique among contemporary novelists, has been ahead of the curve. We’ve been living in his world for a long time—it’s only now, though, that ...

Author Bret Easton Ellis explained why he believes Generation X is currently the most conservative generation in an interview with UnHerd's Jacob Furedi. "I think part of the reason why Gen X is ...

Author Bret Easton Ellis is set to make his feature debut with "Relapse," a horror film starring "Stranger Things" breakout Joseph Quinn.