From Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho to Nabokov’s infamous Lolita, these novels are unsettling not just because of what ...

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 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 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 ...

“Not Donald Trump again,” Evelyn Richards moans about halfway through “American Psycho,” Bret Easton Ellis’ biting satire of the Reagan ‘80s. March 22, 2019 Bret’s paranoia and ...

Ellis' 600+ page novel about a serial killer stalking 1981 Los Angeles is basically an unedited transcript of his Patreon serial. Can it survive a series treatment? Bret Easton Ellis‘ latest nov ...

THE SHARDS, by Bret Easton Ellis Los Angeles, 1981 — the affluent Westside canyons. Kim Carnes’s “Bette Davis Eyes” is on the radio, “The Shining” has just come out in theaters and ...

“When you’re talking to me, you’re really talking to yourself,” warns the protagonist’s friend in Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, “The Shards.” The novel truly feels like talking ...

I am a reluctant fan of both Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis for completely different reasons. But they don’t really strike me as two men whose work would go together well. But I guess we’re ...

Author Bret Easton Ellis says the announced "American Psycho" reimagining isn't real. Ellis said during his eponymous podcast that announced remake's director Luca Guadagnino and rumored lead ...

20th Century Television is producing the series alongside Ryan Murphy Television. Executive producers are Murphy, Ellis, Winkler, Nick Hall, Kathleen McCaffrey, and Brian Young.