Controversial, comical, profound, neurotic, but now more comfortable in his own skin, and at the same time more vulnerable. Than in 1987, when he became a literary star with ‘Less than Zero’, or a decade later, when he published the bestseller ‘American Psycho’, but always as brilliant as polarizing, Bret Easton Ellis was at FLAD, for another edition of Meet the Author – meetings with American writers.

With a new book – ‘The Shards’ – Bret Easton Ellis was in conversation with journalist Isabel Lucas. Review this conversation in full here:

‘Shards’ is Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel since 2013, and is published this month by LeYa/ASA. This is the work he wanted to write – and that tormented him – for two decades. A kind of memory about what happened to you and your friends in your last year of high school, and that the last time you tried to write it, you ended up in a hospital with a severe anxiety attack.

Meet the Author – meetings with American writers is an initiative of FLAD, in partnership with the newspaper PÚBLICO, which regularly brings together some of the best American writers to FLAD for conversations with readers. These conversations are free.