Controversial ‘American Psycho’ author Bret Easton Ellis returns with his first novel in 13 years

One of the biggest literary events of 2023 occurs today (17 January), when Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel in 13 years, ‘The Shards’, finally gets released. The American author best known for his controversial 1991 novel ‘American Psycho’ returns with a fictionalized memoir of his final year of high school in 1981 in Los Angeles – his first since ‘Imperial Bedrooms’ in 2010. The novel was first serialized by Ellis as a 27-part audiobook released between September 2020 and September 2021 through the “Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” on Patreon. Reviewing the audiobook for The Times in 2021, Theo Zenou…

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