#BretEastonEllis, America’s foremost literary pessimist, hasn’t written a #novel for 13 years.

So many of them, according to Ellis, are little more than “#writers masturbating into a hand mirror”. He describes the #literary world, with some justice, as “bullshit”.

But his new book, #TheShards, is not bullshit. It’s a sustained act of remembrance, writes Will Lloyd.

Read more: https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/01/bret-easton-ellis-interview-wokeness

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