![]() ![]() The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, Tammy Bruce, called for a boycott, telling the New York Times: “This is not art. Fans said he defined his generation.īut success was not all he got. He has recalled his East Village apartment back then as “a cokey den of iniquity”. ![]() “This is kind of a book for a Bret Easton Ellis completist.”įor those who are not that, a refresher: the (not unmixed) success of that 1985 debut, about the amoral escapades of rich, disaffected Los Angeles adolescents, turned the then-21-year-old college junior into a fixture of the New York social scene, photographed everywhere from the MTV Movie Awards to Nell’s nightclub in Manhattan, often with his fellow literary brat packer Jay McInerney. In May he will publish his first book in nine years – and his nonfiction debut – an essay collection called White. ![]() Ever since his 1985 debut, Less Than Zero, made him a literary sensation, his violently nihilistic fiction and his politically incorrect public persona have earned him as much fury as acclaim.Īnd after three decades, five subsequent novels and a story collection, a podcast and more than a handful of media spats, Ellis still has more to say. Bret Easton Ellis is no stranger to bad publicity. ![]()
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