‘The Shards’ among the books to look out for in 2023
Bret Easton Ellis initially bypassed book publishers, thinking the gory details would be too much for the literary world
12 January 2023 - 05:00
The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis (January 17)
In the early 1980s three budding young writers, Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jonathan Lethem, arrived to start their freshman year at Bennington College in Vermont, a campus focused on literature and the arts. Along with Jill Eisenstadt, Tama Janowitz, and Jay McInerney, they would become known as the literary “brat pack” and go on to produce some of the best writing of the past 50 years. ..
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