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Bret Easton Ellis on Teenage Nihilism and Nostalgia
Bret Easton Ellis on Teenage Nihilism and Nostalgia
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Feb 10, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Los Angeles, 1981. A group of beautiful, rich, high school students are playing adult in their absentee parents' empty mansions, fueled by lust and prescription drugs, and filled with fear and disaffection. This is the world of The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel in 13 years, part auto-fiction, part horror. The provocative and polarising author joins Alex Preston, award-winning author and journalist, to speak about the emptiness of adolescence, the lawlessness of the 80s, and how it feels to look back at it all aged 56 in 2023.
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Released:
Feb 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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