![]() ![]() He’s started to write what will become his first novel, “Less Than Zero.” (There’s enough in “The Shards” that probably did happen to cast a kind of uncanny doubt over what surely didn’t.) Bret is in a listless relationship with Debbie Schaffer, the daughter of a Hollywood producer, and sleeping with two of his male classmates. Our hero and his friends at the Buckley School cruise the San Fernando Valley, watch movies, take drugs, hook up. Can Ellis now rediscover some of the old magic of “ Less Than Zero” and “ American Psycho”?įall 1981. His cranky but freewheeling podcast seemed gradually to become his main focus. He made a web series and has written a couple of terrible horror movies. It’s been 13 years since his last novel, during which time he’s grown skeptical of both the form and its waning readership. ![]() And it comes with an extra frisson of literary intrigue. It’s also an experiment in autofiction, set during the senior year of one “Bret Ellis” at a private L.A. “ The Shards,” the seventh novel by Bret Easton Ellis, is a paranoid slasher-thriller epic. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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