As that project, along with the rest of Ellis’s work, shows, he has an understanding of how to sum up the zeitgeist by staying a tick or two ahead of it like few living artists have, especially over the length of a career like his. Perhaps most notably, the same year he started The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, he collaborated with director Paul Schrader on 2013’s infamous 2013 erotic thriller The Canyons, a critical punching bag starring Lindsay Lohan.Īnd though he’s done plenty since then, the experience of watching The Canyons-and of seeing everyone have and share an opinion about it-still resonates with me. Started a podcast that was for public consumption in 2013 and moved it to a Patreon-funded subscription-only platform in 2018. He created and directed a web series, and wrote three movies. But he’s certainly kept busy in the time between publishing Imperial Bedrooms, in 2010, and his latest book (out last week), The Shards. Up until this week, it had been over a decade since Bret Easton Ellis last put out a novel.
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