Bret Easton Ellis

• The Poverty of Bret Easton Ellis

[...] Smith's thesis - that gentrification is class war - comes from the banners that adorned the shanties and were held on the barricades erected as defense against the police. [...] on June 3, 1991, just a few weeks after the publication of American Psycho, around three hundred park dwellers were evicted at the behest of the Dinkins mayoral administration.

• Arizona Quarterly, The
• Vol. 65 Nbr. 3, October 2009

• Horrors! Bret Easton Ellis Straightens Up

Bret Easton Ellis, the enfant terrible of the literary Brat Pack of the 1980s, is sorry for all the pain and trouble he has caused. He's sorry for playing up to the hype that greeted the publication of his first novel, "Less Than Zero," when he was 21; for becoming addicted to drugs and parties and fame; for writing "American Psycho"; for posing for too many narcissistic photographs and giving too many self-important interviews; for being a jerk, basically. Ellis is the narrator of "Lunar Park," the new novel by the author named Bret Easton Ellis. Despite their suspiciously similar careers, the two should not be confused, even though for its first dozen or so pages, "Lunar Park" reads like a castigating autobiography by a just-middle-age writer looking back on his coke- and-ego-fueled y...

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• August 29, 2005

• Stalking Bret Easton Ellis: A Novel in Two Parts.

Caroline Weiss; STALKING BRET EASTON ELLIS: A NOVEL IN TWO PARTS; iUniverse (Fiction) $14.95 ISBN: 1440120730 Too old to be considered children too ...

• ForeWord
• Nbr. 2009, March 2009

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BRET EASTON ELLIS began his novel, "Less Than Zero," with a simple declarative sentence that prompted several hundred words of direct obsession and a few hundred pages of indirect dissolution: "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. It would be a happy accident if some people in Hampton Roads failed to merge because they were afraid to merge, but the answer is more mundane than that. Some folks are just too rude to merge.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• May 27, 2011

• Their Stereotypically Decadent Lives

In the mid 1970s, the Eagles achieved their greatest success with the album "Hotel California," which explored and lamented the dark side of the West Coast's music/entertainment culture. The songs scrutinized a land that had at one time been a wondrous place, but that had become for many an out-of-control hell on earth - of rampant cocaine use, loveless sex and wealth beyond the dreams of avarice to pay for it all. It was hinted that there may be something else out there pervading it all, something demonic, controlling and not to be denied. The title track famously warned, "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. Fast-forward a few years to the 1980s in Southern California. This is the milieu of Bret Easton Ellis' novel "Imperial Bedrooms." It is the same world de...

• The Washington Times
• August 06, 2010

• Less Than Hero

Part self-send-up, part interrogation of the author-as-celebrity syndrome, Bret Easton Ellis's new novel Lunar Park may only add to the questions surrounding his much publicized career. Stosuy pries some answers from the perpetual enfant terrible of the American lit scene.

• Village Voice, The
• August 05, 2009

• Editor's Choice

Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis; Knopf, 169 pages ($24.95). It would, no doubt, be immensely satisfying to some to ignore the simultaneous 25th anniversary publication of Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero" and this, Ellis' new novel featuring its characters. Ellis, after all, is among those responsible for the movie "The Informers" (fictionalized here as "The Listeners"), a movie from one of his books so horrible that Billy Bob Thornton and Kim Basinger made no difference. But the truly damnable fact about Bret Easton Ellis is that, decadent public image be damned, he remains a profoundly talented - - occasionally even brilliant -- writer from a coterie (his most famous buddy is Jay McInerney) that seemed to be inspired, in equal and varying parts, by Fitzgerald, Nabo...

• Buffalo News
• June 21, 2010

• Shockingly Funny 'Reefer Madness' at the Waterfront

In the 1930s, a church group financed an extremely low-budget film titled "Tell Your Children," hoping to sound a clarion call in regard to marijuana's deleterious effects on the minds of hormone-riddled teenagers. Shortly after its completion, Dwain Esper, author of the cinematic "classics," "Sex Madness" and "The Seventh Commandment," purchased "Tell Your Children," retitling the film "Reefer Madness" and editing in some risqué shots to satisfy his B-movie following. According to the film, which was advertised as a morality tale, marijuana smoking inevitably destroys its users, turning their lives into a storyline that even Bret Easton Ellis might not find plausible. This "toking up" parable has been skillfully re-imagined as a strangely uplifting musical, offering more evidence that ...

• Solares Hill
• August 25, 2009

• Lo Nuevo En Dvd

thirtysomething ($60/Shout!), en su análisis de la relación de parejas en la era de Reagan, ha sido acusada en muchas ocasiones de blandengue y melodramática: pero fue la primera serie que dio preferencia al diálogo por encima de la acción, que colocó a sus personajes en situaciones diarias convencionales con las que la clase media podía identificarse y que empleó técnicas visuales propias del cine para narrar las historias. Un clásico. Rudo y Cursi ($29 en DVD y $40 en Blu-ray/Sony) es una simpática comedia melodramática protagonizada por Gael García Bernal y Diego Luna en el papel de dos hermanos rivales en la cancha deportiva. El filme fue escrito y dirigido por Carlos Cuarón, guionista de Y tu mamá también y hermano del director de esta, Alfonso Cuarón. El realizador y los dos actor...

... de la novela del siempre sobrevalorado Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) y que protagonizaro...

• La Opinión; Los Angeles, Calif.
• October 15, 2009

• I Eat Flora, You Eat Fauna-and It's Fine

Planning to propose to a vegetarian? Durham's PARIZÄDE (2200 W. Main St., 2869712, www.ghgrestaurants.com/parizade/ parizademaster.html) is the perfect specialoccasion spot. Despite the haute New Yorkcirca-1989 decor, the white-tablecloth service is immaculate - the servers even have those little tablecloth scrapers - and the food is deliciously moan-inducing. From the vegetable mezze with warm grilled pita and bright vegetable pickles to tender, fresh lemon pasta and flavorful individual pizzas, there is plenty to enjoy without meat. Dinner skews on the pricey side, but there's a daily $4.95 lunch special. Plus, you'll feel like you're in a Bret Easton Ellis novel. As a recent UNC grad, I am well-acquainted with COSMIC CANTINA (128 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, 960-3955;1920 Perry St.,...

• Independent Weekly, The; Durham, N.C.
• February 22, 2010