Less Than Zero

novel by Ellis

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discussed in biography

  • Bret Easton Ellis
    In Bret Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero

    At Bennington Ellis completed Less Than Zero, excerpts of which McGinniss had shared with an editor at Simon & Schuster publishing house. The novel was published in 1985 while Ellis was in his junior year of college. Less Than Zero is a…

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“The Secret History”

  • The Byzantine origins of The Secret History
    In The Secret History

    …vein of Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero and Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City. In some ways, they were taking it too seriously; in others, perhaps, not seriously enough.

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