Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was 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 amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most remembered for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynist; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.
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- 2024 · BRATS as Self
- 2022 · The End of the World as
- 2021 · Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis as Self - Writer
- 2020 · Kill, Kobek... Kill! as Bret Easton Ellis
- 2019 · The Loser as Himself
- 2018 · Generation Wealth as Self
- 2017 · 78/52 as Self
- 2016 · The Deleted as Interviewer (voice)
- 2014 · Her: Love in the Modern Age as Self
- 2010 · Behind the scenes of All That Glitters as Author
- 2004 · Tout le monde en parle as Self
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 1995 · Central Park West as
- Future · Am I Irvine Welsh? as Self
- 2001 · Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat as Se stesso