(February 19, 2014) – VICE today presents an interview with Bret Easton Ellis, titled “Bret Easton Ellis Says We’re All a Bunch of Cry-Babies.” In the interview, acclaimed novelist-turned-screenwriter Easton Ellis talks collaborating with Kanye West and his frustration with hyper-sensitive millennials.
Bret Easton Ellis has only got to open his mouth for the cry-babies of the world to crawl out and start berating him for being a morally depraved chancer. Back in the 80s and 90s, you could sympathise with people getting offended by his books if they hadn’t spent much time around hedge-fund managers or fashion-world dickheads. If they had, they’d realize that and Glamorama are in essence works of journalism—dressed up in Valentino and splattered with blood, yes, but documentaries of a certain moment in history all the same. “The six or seven books add up as a sort of autobiography,” he says. “When I look at them I think, Oh, that’s where I was in ’91. That’s where I was in ’88. OK, I got it.”
Read the rest of the interview on VICE.com: http://www.vice.com/read/bret-easton-ellis-interview
When VICE called Easton Ellis’s house in last week, the author spoke passionately about his frustration with ”Generation Wuss” and why he couldn’t say no to a collaboration with Yeezus.
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