The year is 1981 and Bret Ellis is a 17-year-old senior at the prestigious Los Angeles Buckley School in Bret Easton Ellis’s newest novel, “The Shards.” He’s dating the hottest girl in his ...

Bret Easton Ellis is known for his decadent portrayals of modern culture, illustrated in novels like American Psycho with ...

Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, “ The Shards,” takes a nostalgic look back at 1981. It’s a murder thriller crossed with a coming-of-age tale, replete with Wayfarer sunglasses, quaaludes and ...

“The Shards,” the seventh novel by Bret Easton Ellis, is a paranoid slasher-thriller epic. It’s also an experiment in autofiction, set during the senior year of one “Bret Ellis” at a ...

Los Angeles-based novelist Bret Easton Ellis threw a drive-by grenade at NYC while promoting his latest disgusting — oops, “disturbing” — book.

Four of Easton’s books have made it to Hollywood. Now comes “The Shards,” which announces itself as “novel” and “entirely a work of fiction” yet wears the clothes of autobiography. Its 17-year-old ...

EXCLUSIVE: Bret Easton Ellis’ The Shards, which is both a podcast and novel, is in the works at HBO as a drama series, Deadline has learned. Ellis will write and EP with Nick Hall and Brian Young.

"Lunar Park," his 2005 horror novel/faux memoir about a notorious, disturbed writer — Bret Easton Ellis — also blended fact with fiction and is told in first person.

Bret Easton Ellis' 1980s-set novel "The Shards" is now in series development at HBO. Here's why it will work, and what needs to change.

"American Psycho" author Bret Easton Ellis revealed his boyfriend of 14 years, Todd Michael Schultz, was committed to a psych ward after being arrested for burglary.

It’s also an experiment in autofiction, set during the senior year of one “Bret Ellis” at a private L.A. prep school. And it comes with an extra frisson of literary intrigue.

An TV adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis crime book “The Shards” is in the works at HBO, TheWrap has confirmed. Ellis will serve as the sole writer for the series, which “tracks a group of ...