Bret Easton Ellis

Has John Sharkey III Has Toned Down His GG Allin-Meets-Don Rickles Act?

You are forgiven if the name John Sharkey III doesn't mean much to you. Last time he performed in NYC under the Puerto Rico Flowers moniker, you may have been gyrating at a discotek or standing on the sidewalk with a slice of pizza. The time before that, you could have been watching a group called t ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan And Porn Star Get Sensual In New Movie Trailer

They're calling it "Lindsay Lohan's confusing new movie trailer", but it's quite clear to me. It's a loving sendup of a 1952 pulp drama, this one featuring Lindsay and a real porn star, James Deen. The film is called The Canyons and it's written by Bret Easton Ellis and helmed by "the never nomina ... More >>

Frank Ocean, the Weeknd, Miguel: Who Will Be the Token Black Guy on Year-End Best of Lists?

There's an intense race going on right now. A race not a lot of you may know about. A race that even the people involved may not know they're a part of. But it's a race, and it's happening: the race to see which r & b singer will end up on most critics' top-ten lists at the end of the year. It's a ... More >>

Strange Happenings In Tom Cruise's Building

First of all, the media is wrong in continually stating that Tom Cruise has a townhouse on 12th Street. The reality is it's a duplex on 13th Street, in the American Felt Building, where American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis also lives. My sources say Tom bought the place after doing Risky Busin ... More >>

OMD's "If You Leave" Can't Get Out Of Here Soon Enough

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Shooting Film With Porn Actor James Deen

No, it's not a porno, but the lovely Lindsay will be naked in it. Playing Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace didn't work out for Linz, but playing violet-eyed Liz Taylor did, and now, in The Canyons, she'll be full-frontaling it up as part of the ensemble showing the steamy underbelly of L.A. living. ... More >>

Snooki's Gorilla Beach Reportedly Hits Web; We Read The First Chapter (and Survive!)

Is Snooki the Bret Easton Ellis of guidos? Her novel Gorilla Beach -- a Jersey Shore roman a clef, if you will -- will hit bookstore shelves May 15. Hollywoodlife.com claimed this afternoon to have gotten an exclusive copy of the first chapter, "Like a Slutty Virgin." Of course, we had guessed t ... More >>

Bret Easton Ellis on Bullying: 'Deal With It'

American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, who is only the second most annoying novelist on Twitter, doesn't mince words. He's generally full of Very Definitive Opinions about movies, TV, and other culture stuff, and last night he cottoned onto a new subject: bullying. ​ Contentious, isn't i ... More >>

The Men, Pop. 1280, White Suns, and Pygmy Shrews Regrease Pigfuck

Unchillwave.

Live: Peaches Christ Superstar Ascends At The Society For Ethical Culture

Not nearly as sacrilegious as you may have hoped/feared. Pics by Chris, more below.​Peaches Christ Superstar Starring Peaches and Gonzales The Concert Hall at the Society for Ethical Culture Saturday, December 11 Better Than: Pussies, Peaches' one-woman version of CATS. So here we have Peac ... More >>

When Hipsters and Teach for America Meet in the Middle: Bret Easton Ellis Banned from Queens Classroom

​Something valuable can be taught from every piece of controversial literature, whether it's from the cautionary tale of hate speech that is Mein Kampf to the crash-course in free speech that is The Anarchist Cookbook. There are certain books, however, that maybe shouldn't be read before young ... More >>

The Problem With Tao Lin

We read Richard Yates and thought about it and it kind of 'bums' us out

Bret Easton Ellis Thinks He Looks Like Robert Pattinson & Mel Gibson, 'Gets' Celebrity Interviews

​Celebrity interviews exist on a strange spectrum of self-awareness. From enigmatic to overshare-y, it's all for publicity, leaving it as the readers' job -- should they care at all about something as trivial as celebrity journalism -- to deduce where the subject's quest to create a character ... More >>

Capital New York: Now Officially, Totally, Completely Alive

​We've come a long way from Talk Magazine, back when a bunch of writers doing something new meant a Robert Isbell-planned party on Liberty Island and George Plimpton drunkenly screaming at Salman Rushdie while he was busy trying to close on Padma. Yet, now, in an era when "editorial launch" me ... More >>

This Week, in the Voice: The Andrew Cuomo-Shelly Silver Donkey Show

​How many Democrats does it take to make a donkey show? In this week's cover story, Village Voice columnist Wayne Barrett takes account of the opposition New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo will actually have to face: Shelly Silver, and the rest of our state's old-school democrats.

This Week's Voice: Summer Jam 2010, Christina Aguilera, Against Me!, Bret Easton Ellis, and More

Nicki Minaj, in one of many "invincible Street Fighter 2 character" outfits. Photo by Santiago Felipe​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla keeps a running diary of Summer Jam 2010, where the best highlight Hot 97 could muster was a set from DJ Khaled. What happened, New York? Elsewhere, ... More >>

Bret Easton Ellis Writes His Less Than Zero Sequel: Imperial Bedrooms

The author returns to L.A. 25 years later

'Chris Alker Presents Less Than Zero'

New Ad Calls for Pinky-Ringed Wall Streeters to Do the Right Thing

​For the two or three of you out there who still watch commercials, you're about to start seeing a rather amateurish statewide ad that asks -- nay, demands! -- Wall Street and big businesses (who all smoke cigars, wear multiple gold rings, and take their Pellegrino with lemon, thank you very m ... More >>

Gossip Folks: The Oprah-Rielle-Blowjobs-DMB Connection

​Consider this column still "in beta" or whatever, but we're gonna start rounding up some of our local gossip for you. We don't have a better title for it right now, and if you have one, we'd love to hear your ideas. In the meantime, we've got Oprah's big "get," Cindy Adams and Her War at Home ... More >>

Jay McInerney's New Gig: WSJ Wine Critic

​The guy who wrote Bright Lights, Big City just became one of two wine critics at the Wall Street Journal. If he hadn't long before sealed his reputation as the guy who made it impossible for Bret Easton Ellis to ever look like a sellout, he certainly has now. [FK]

Why Bears Are The New Twinks!

Hairy times also with queens, Basterds, and Hamptons royalty.

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Bret Easton Ellis Still Has That Twitter Account

In April, New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear helped novelist Bret Easton Ellis set up a Twitter account, in a very Talk of the Town-type ("This is the real BEE," he wrote, and said aloud, "What should I put, BTW, FYI, OMG?") Talk of the Town piece. Since then, twitter.com/eastonellis has proceeded at ... More >>

Pitch-Perfect Child Performances Root Treeless Mountain; Teen Trash Rots The Informers

The Education of Charlie Banks: Fred Durst's Second Film?!?

The Digital Body

Sex and savagery meet technology in this blog fiction anthology

Last Night

On the other side: Brightness Falls sequel sets the Calloways adrift in the wake of 9-11

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

Less Than Hero

In his new novel 'Lunar Park', former enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis keeps it unreal

Watery, Domestic: A Hit Man From Atlantis Makes Waves

Harrell Mines Detritus From the Worlds of Fashion and '80s Fiction

Dance

In the Bedroom

Horndog debuts: Ménages à trois, strippers, and Kundera

Slaves to the Grind

NY Mirror

Maggie May . . .

The Many Sides of Indie Film's Newest Siren

Vanity Fare

Atrocity Exhibitions

On the Subject of Me

The Most Dangerous Writer In America

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

The Dope Show

The Informer

Music

Brain Food

How Hannibal Lecter Gets Inside Our Heads

Music

Suburban Scrawl

Cult Club

Fashion Victims

Velvet Crush

Christian Bale