Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters.
Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about wealthy amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most known for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year. Four of Ellis's works have been made into films. Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, leading to the release of a starkly different Less Than Zero film in 1987. Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive reviews in 2000, and went on to achieve cult status. In later years, Ellis' novels have become increasingly metafictional. 2005's Lunar Park, a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews, and 2010's Imperial Bedrooms, marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein.
Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which are prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or (less often) commercial motives. This article lists notable banned books and works, giving a brief context for the reason that each book was prohibited. Banned books include fictional works such as novels, poems and plays and non-fiction works such as biographies and dictionaries.
Since there is a large number of banned books, some publishers have specialized in them. The best-known examples are the Parisian Obelisk Press, which published Henry Miller's sexually frank novel Tropic of Cancer, and Olympia Press, which published William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Both of these, the work of father Jack Kahane and son Maurice Girodias, specialized in English-language books which were prohibited, at the time, in Great Britain and the United States. Ruedo Ibérico, also located in Paris, specialized in books prohibited in Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Russian literature prohibited during the Soviet period was published outside of Russia.
Bret Easton Ellis: Hollywood’s wokeness is 'reverse racism'
“All of this progressivism that Hollywood is so proud of itself about and how woke it thinks it is, is actually a kind of reverse racism.”
Hollywood’s “strict ideologies” has caused reverse wokeness and reverse progressivism in the industry, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis tells #TimesRadio.
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How Bret Easton Ellis came up with 'American Psycho' | Larry King Now | Ora.TV
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Bret Easton Ellis says the book that would become 'American Psycho' didn't start as a novel about a serial killer, and shares the real-life experience of his that proved the turning point.
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Bret Easton Ellis | American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, Childhood, Houellebecq, The Shard, Hollywood
Wolfgang Wee Uncut #351: Bret Easton Ellis is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director.
0:00 Touring in your 50s
1:30 The American press hate me
7:00 Michel Houellebecq
9:20 Ellis' childhood years
20:57 They cancelled me!
23:48 The publisher loved the idea, not the novel
28:25 Death threats
35:30 The re-emergence of Patrick Bateman in Social Media
38:46 Leonardo Di Caprio as Patrick Bateman?
42:00 Bret's own screenplay
44:04 Bret's Draft vs The Final Screenplay
47:00 Rejections in Hollywood
58:30 American Psycho sequel or TV show?
1:01:28 The creation of Patrick Bateman
1:06:00 Working with outlines
1:10:25 Robert McKee is full of crap!
1:13:05 Tarantino thinks Robert McKee is bullshit
1:15:30 TV shows with only one writer
1:19:00 The Shards - new nov...
published: 14 Feb 2023
Bret Easton Ellis: My generation wanted to be offended
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00:00 - 01:04 - What is Bret Easton Ellis’s new book about?
01:04 - 03:03 - The book was not a defence of Trump
03:03 - 04:51 - Is Kanye West an anti-Semite?
04:51 - 06:34 - Kanye is a moron
06:34 - 08:12 - How difficult is it for each generation to be liked?
08:12 - 12:56 - Bret grew up in a w...
published: 03 Feb 2023
The Shards - Book Trailer (US)
1981. An aspiring writer recounts his senior year at a prestigious prep school in Los Angeles when a serial killer began stalking teenagers throughout the city--he and his friends, including a mysterious new student, among them. Now available to preorder: https://linktr.ee/breteastonellis
published: 28 Sep 2022
Mishcon Academy: In Conversation with Bret Easton Ellis
In a rare London appearance, author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis spoke to Sarah Lau, Senior Communication Manager about his latest exploration of the darker edges of American culture in his novel, The Shards.
published: 08 Feb 2023
Bret Easton Ellis: The Shards
In his latest novel, 'The Shards', Bret Easton Ellis confronts a story that had been running around his mind for decades. It centers around what happened to him and a group of friends at the end of high school, in the height of their teenage years. A group of superficially sophisticated children not yet baptized in the ‘real world’, the lives of Bret and his friends were shattered by a series of terrible events.
In Los Angeles in the autumn of 1981, a local serial killer known only as The Trawler draws ever closer to Bret and his friends, seemingly taunting them with grotesque threats and acts of violence. As Bret’s obsession with the killer grows, he spirals into paranoia and isolation.
Filtered through the imagination of a teenager gifted in constructing narratives from the threads of ...
published: 02 Feb 2023
Cathy Newman vs Bret Easton Ellis on Donald Trump
published: 24 Apr 2019
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Hollywood’s “strict ...
“All of this progressivism that Hollywood is so proud of itself about and how woke it thinks it is, is actually a kind of reverse racism.”
Hollywood’s “strict ideologies” has caused reverse wokeness and reverse progressivism in the industry, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis tells #TimesRadio.
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“All of this progressivism that Hollywood is so proud of itself about and how woke it thinks it is, is actually a kind of reverse racism.”
Hollywood’s “strict ideologies” has caused reverse wokeness and reverse progressivism in the industry, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis tells #TimesRadio.
---
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Bret Easton Ellis says the book that would become 'American Psycho' didn't start...
Watch the Full Larry King Now Interview Here: http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow
Bret Easton Ellis says the book that would become 'American Psycho' didn't start as a novel about a serial killer, and shares the real-life experience of his that proved the turning point.
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Watch the Full Larry King Now Interview Here: http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow
Bret Easton Ellis says the book that would become 'American Psycho' didn't start as a novel about a serial killer, and shares the real-life experience of his that proved the turning point.
Sign up for the Larry King Now newsletter to receive guest updates: http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/article/2015/10/19/subscribe-to-our-larrykingnow-show-updates
Wolfgang Wee Uncut #351: Bret Easton Ellis is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director.
0:00 Touring in your 50s
1:30 The American pr...
Wolfgang Wee Uncut #351: Bret Easton Ellis is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director.
0:00 Touring in your 50s
1:30 The American press hate me
7:00 Michel Houellebecq
9:20 Ellis' childhood years
20:57 They cancelled me!
23:48 The publisher loved the idea, not the novel
28:25 Death threats
35:30 The re-emergence of Patrick Bateman in Social Media
38:46 Leonardo Di Caprio as Patrick Bateman?
42:00 Bret's own screenplay
44:04 Bret's Draft vs The Final Screenplay
47:00 Rejections in Hollywood
58:30 American Psycho sequel or TV show?
1:01:28 The creation of Patrick Bateman
1:06:00 Working with outlines
1:10:25 Robert McKee is full of crap!
1:13:05 Tarantino thinks Robert McKee is bullshit
1:15:30 TV shows with only one writer
1:19:00 The Shards - new novel
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Wolfgang Wee Uncut #351: Bret Easton Ellis is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director.
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1:30 The American press hate me
7:00 Michel Houellebecq
9:20 Ellis' childhood years
20:57 They cancelled me!
23:48 The publisher loved the idea, not the novel
28:25 Death threats
35:30 The re-emergence of Patrick Bateman in Social Media
38:46 Leonardo Di Caprio as Patrick Bateman?
42:00 Bret's own screenplay
44:04 Bret's Draft vs The Final Screenplay
47:00 Rejections in Hollywood
58:30 American Psycho sequel or TV show?
1:01:28 The creation of Patrick Bateman
1:06:00 Working with outlines
1:10:25 Robert McKee is full of crap!
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1:15:30 TV shows with only one writer
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01:04 - 03:03 - The book was not a defence of Trump
03:03 - 04:51 - Is Kanye West an anti-Semite?
04:51 - 06:34 - Kanye is a moron
06:34 - 08:12 - How difficult is it for each generation to be liked?
08:12 - 12:56 - Bret grew up in a world dominated by adults
#UnHerd #BretEastonEllis #TheShards
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03:03 - 04:51 - Is Kanye West an anti-Semite?
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08:12 - 12:56 - Bret grew up in a world dominated by adults
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1981. An aspiring writer recounts his senior year at a prestigious prep school in Los Angeles when a serial killer began stalking teenagers throughout the city-...
1981. An aspiring writer recounts his senior year at a prestigious prep school in Los Angeles when a serial killer began stalking teenagers throughout the city--he and his friends, including a mysterious new student, among them. Now available to preorder: https://linktr.ee/breteastonellis
1981. An aspiring writer recounts his senior year at a prestigious prep school in Los Angeles when a serial killer began stalking teenagers throughout the city--he and his friends, including a mysterious new student, among them. Now available to preorder: https://linktr.ee/breteastonellis
In a rare London appearance, author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis spoke to Sarah Lau, Senior Communication Manager about his latest exploration of the dark...
In a rare London appearance, author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis spoke to Sarah Lau, Senior Communication Manager about his latest exploration of the darker edges of American culture in his novel, The Shards.
In a rare London appearance, author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis spoke to Sarah Lau, Senior Communication Manager about his latest exploration of the darker edges of American culture in his novel, The Shards.
In his latest novel, 'The Shards', Bret Easton Ellis confronts a story that had been running around his mind for decades. It centers around what happened to him...
In his latest novel, 'The Shards', Bret Easton Ellis confronts a story that had been running around his mind for decades. It centers around what happened to him and a group of friends at the end of high school, in the height of their teenage years. A group of superficially sophisticated children not yet baptized in the ‘real world’, the lives of Bret and his friends were shattered by a series of terrible events.
In Los Angeles in the autumn of 1981, a local serial killer known only as The Trawler draws ever closer to Bret and his friends, seemingly taunting them with grotesque threats and acts of violence. As Bret’s obsession with the killer grows, he spirals into paranoia and isolation.
Filtered through the imagination of a teenager gifted in constructing narratives from the threads of his own life, this mesmerizing novel is a vivid and nostalgic fusing of fact and fiction at the borderlands between the real and the imagined.
Bret Easton Ellis visited the John Adams Institute on 30 January, 2023.
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In his latest novel, 'The Shards', Bret Easton Ellis confronts a story that had been running around his mind for decades. It centers around what happened to him and a group of friends at the end of high school, in the height of their teenage years. A group of superficially sophisticated children not yet baptized in the ‘real world’, the lives of Bret and his friends were shattered by a series of terrible events.
In Los Angeles in the autumn of 1981, a local serial killer known only as The Trawler draws ever closer to Bret and his friends, seemingly taunting them with grotesque threats and acts of violence. As Bret’s obsession with the killer grows, he spirals into paranoia and isolation.
Filtered through the imagination of a teenager gifted in constructing narratives from the threads of his own life, this mesmerizing novel is a vivid and nostalgic fusing of fact and fiction at the borderlands between the real and the imagined.
Bret Easton Ellis visited the John Adams Institute on 30 January, 2023.
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“All of this progressivism that Hollywood is so proud of itself about and how woke it thinks it is, is actually a kind of reverse racism.”
Hollywood’s “strict ideologies” has caused reverse wokeness and reverse progressivism in the industry, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis tells #TimesRadio.
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Bret Easton Ellis says the book that would become 'American Psycho' didn't start as a novel about a serial killer, and shares the real-life experience of his that proved the turning point.
Sign up for the Larry King Now newsletter to receive guest updates: http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/article/2015/10/19/subscribe-to-our-larrykingnow-show-updates
Wolfgang Wee Uncut #351: Bret Easton Ellis is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director.
0:00 Touring in your 50s
1:30 The American press hate me
7:00 Michel Houellebecq
9:20 Ellis' childhood years
20:57 They cancelled me!
23:48 The publisher loved the idea, not the novel
28:25 Death threats
35:30 The re-emergence of Patrick Bateman in Social Media
38:46 Leonardo Di Caprio as Patrick Bateman?
42:00 Bret's own screenplay
44:04 Bret's Draft vs The Final Screenplay
47:00 Rejections in Hollywood
58:30 American Psycho sequel or TV show?
1:01:28 The creation of Patrick Bateman
1:06:00 Working with outlines
1:10:25 Robert McKee is full of crap!
1:13:05 Tarantino thinks Robert McKee is bullshit
1:15:30 TV shows with only one writer
1:19:00 The Shards - new novel
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01:04 - 03:03 - The book was not a defence of Trump
03:03 - 04:51 - Is Kanye West an anti-Semite?
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#UnHerd #BretEastonEllis #TheShards
1981. An aspiring writer recounts his senior year at a prestigious prep school in Los Angeles when a serial killer began stalking teenagers throughout the city--he and his friends, including a mysterious new student, among them. Now available to preorder: https://linktr.ee/breteastonellis
In a rare London appearance, author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis spoke to Sarah Lau, Senior Communication Manager about his latest exploration of the darker edges of American culture in his novel, The Shards.
In his latest novel, 'The Shards', Bret Easton Ellis confronts a story that had been running around his mind for decades. It centers around what happened to him and a group of friends at the end of high school, in the height of their teenage years. A group of superficially sophisticated children not yet baptized in the ‘real world’, the lives of Bret and his friends were shattered by a series of terrible events.
In Los Angeles in the autumn of 1981, a local serial killer known only as The Trawler draws ever closer to Bret and his friends, seemingly taunting them with grotesque threats and acts of violence. As Bret’s obsession with the killer grows, he spirals into paranoia and isolation.
Filtered through the imagination of a teenager gifted in constructing narratives from the threads of his own life, this mesmerizing novel is a vivid and nostalgic fusing of fact and fiction at the borderlands between the real and the imagined.
Bret Easton Ellis visited the John Adams Institute on 30 January, 2023.
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Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters.
Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about wealthy amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most known for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year. Four of Ellis's works have been made into films. Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, leading to the release of a starkly different Less Than Zero film in 1987. Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive reviews in 2000, and went on to achieve cult status. In later years, Ellis' novels have become increasingly metafictional. 2005's Lunar Park, a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews, and 2010's Imperial Bedrooms, marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein.
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