• Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards, is set in the Century Towers, which can be seen from his 11th-story condo in West Hollywood.
• Ellis wrote the novel over the course of 16 months, and it is about a serial killer named The Trawler and the kids whose lives are turned upside down by him.
• The novel is a reflection of Ellis’s own experiences as a teenager in the fall of 1981, and is about the search for freedom and independence.
• Ellis reflects on the transformation of the younger generations since the early nineties, and how the uncool earnestness of the signallers and brand builders has replaced the cool of the Gen X-ers.
• Ellis believes that no one can save us, and that the novel is a nostalgia for the past and a lamentation of what we have become.
Published January 22, 2023
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