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Ryan Murphy, Bret Easton Ellis and The Shards

Meet the young actors bringing 'The Shards' to the screen, a n '80s-set queer coming-of-age thriller from Bret Easton Ellis.
Bret Easton Ellis is known for his decadent portrayals of modern culture, illustrated in novels like American Psycho with ...
Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, “ The Shards,” takes a nostalgic look back at 1981. It’s a murder thriller crossed with a coming-of-age tale, replete with Wayfarer sunglasses, quaaludes and ...
The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel since Imperial Bedrooms was published 13 years ago. In it, a 17-year-old Ellis, who both is and isn’t Ellis himself, tells the story of his senior ...
Bret Easton Ellis' 1980s-set novel "The Shards" is now in series development at HBO. Here's why it will work, and what needs to change.
"The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled ...