The Dark Mirror of Bret Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero to American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis is one of the most misunderstood writers of our time.
From Less Than Zero to American Psycho to The Shards, his fiction isn’t about violence or shock — it’s about emptiness, image, and the illusion of connection in modern life.
In this deep, conversational late-night dive, I look at what makes Ellis’s work timeless, how his satire gets misread, and why Once Upon a Time at Bennington College is such a key to understanding the literary brat pack of the 1980s.
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