Image credits: (background) Vlada Karpovich/Pexels; (author photo of Bret Easton Ellis) Casely Nelson. January 16, 2023 Bret Easton Ellis’s ambitious new novel of sex, violence and adolescence in 80s Los Angeles is autofiction for our digital age Alexander Howard, University of Sydney Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years blurs fact and fiction, mining his youth for material. The result is Joan Didion meets Brian De Palma.
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron, Lionsgate Films, 2000). November 21, 2022 The case for American Psycho: why this controversial book (sold here in shrink wrap) still matters Alexander Howard, University of Sydney Bret Easton Ellis’s grotesquely violent novel is irreducibly misogynist, racist and homophobic. So was Reagan’s America. It’s less darkly comic satire than deadly serious social diagnostic.
d feee a o. June 25, 2019 Bret Easton Ellis: countercultural bad boy to grumpy Gen-Xer in eight essays Matt Graham, Manchester Metropolitan University The ‘bad boy’ of 1980s US fiction is back with his first foray into non-fiction. As you’d expect, he’s still courting controversy.