Between 1 and 5 am on Saturday morning in Los Angeles, Bret Easton Ellis, author of the controversial 1991 bestseller American Psycho, began tweeting notes on a new sequel to his biggest novel. Ellis tweeted details for the new novel to his followers as he brainstormed for four hours, even going as far as requesting feedback on his flurry of ideas.
Bret Easton Ellis rose to fame at a very young age, publishing his first novel, Less Than Zero, while he was still in college. Ellis became a controversial author when his third novel, American Psycho, was dropped from publishing house Simon & Schuster over “aesthetic differences,” though Vintage later picked up the publishing rights. Ellis received hate mail and death threats over the book, due to its graphic, often misogynistic violence. Since then the author has stood by its literary merit as a social satire, and gone on to write four more novels.
Ellis tweeted primarily about his killer protagonist’s possible interests in media and technology today. “Patrick would talk about Adele and Kanye and KATY PERRY because ‘Firework’ is his favorite song… and then he kills Katy Perry’s trainer.”
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The author went on to talk about how his killer will use new tech to find victims.
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Horror director Eli Roth responded to one of Ellis’ tweets after a mention of Hostel (along with the musical Chicago) being one of Bateman’s favorite movies. “I’m obsessing over this!” Roth wrote. “What does he do now that Netflix Instant exists? What about Whitney’s death?”
As a long time fan, with all this live excitement over another Patrick Bateman novel, I can’t stop wondering what new technology Ellis’ killer will obsess over next.