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Ready or not, here he comes. Here, he takes questions from friends and luminaries about video games, sincerity, and the death of art. What was it about those writers that attracted me? Again, you bump up against aesthetics, and I was attracted to those writers solely because of their style and not who they were or if they were gay or straight.

By Bret Easton Ellis. Here is the stat: 4. This percentage means that we are overrepresented at the Oscars this year in terms of the number of gay or bisexual characters played by nominated actors — a record seven out of This is, remarkably, in American movies, a new thing.

Not many authors are interviewed by Vogue and The New Yorker on the publication of their latest book, but then not many authors are the notorious Bret Easton Ellis. Controversy sticks to Easton Ellis like blood to a blade, most recently seen in the reaction to White , his first collection of non-fiction essays. In person, the man is far from the ranting misanthrope portrayed by many reviewers. Monster, misunderstood, or something else entirely?

Below is an edited transcript of his conversation with Jacob Furedi. You first tried in , and then again a number of times in the decades since. What changed that meant you could write it now? I was 16 or 17 when I started writing Less Than Zero.