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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis review – a triumphant return to form by Sam Byers Jan 4, 2023 Ellis’s first novel in 13 years brilliantly fictionalises the secrets and desires of his high school years and the birth of his dark literary persona Each episode of Bret Easton Ellis’s long-running podcast begins with a monologue – sometimes a review, sometimes a mildly provocative essay, pillorying the culture’s supposed new puritans. His opening in September 2020 felt different. For 20 years, Ellis said, he’d been haunted by a book he longed to write but was terrified to begin: a memoir of sorts, detailing “what happened to me, and a few of my friends, one year at the end of high school”. His last false start – a few rough pages written with “trembling hands”, half-numbed by tequila – triggered “an anxiety attack so severe that it sent me to the emergency room”. Ellis’s delivery was so perfectly pitched that it took a few moments to register the blurring of form. This wasn’t a podcast monologue; it was the opening to his first new novel in 13 years, The Shards. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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