“Around Fourth Avenue, 13th Street, I looked up from my phone and I suddenly panicked.” “I had not been to New York in at least 10 years,” said the “Rules of Attraction” author, whose East Village/Union Square digs, where he wrote “American Psycho,” recently hit the market for $1.5 million. ‘American Psycho’ author Bret Easton Ellis’ new book is even more disturbingĮllis said he first became disillusioned with the city after a 2016 pilgrimage to his old stomping grounds in Astor Place to meet a prospective tenant. The NYC refugee, who currently resides in his birthplace of Los Angeles, has owned an apartment in Gotham City since 1987 but reportedly hasn’t slept there for a decade, according to Vanity Fair.
“I thought, ‘How does anyone live here?'” “The Shards” by Bret Easton Ellis. “I arrived Wednesday night during this horrible storm, and then the usual problems of getting your luggage, an hour waiting at Delta carousel, and then the ride into New York,” the disillusioned 58-year-old satirist told Vanity Fair while describing his recent promo tour. During a recent Big Apple trip to promote his new book “ The Shards,” the novelist wondered, “How in the f–k does anyone live here?” and pondered how someone could possibly call the now “unrecognizable” metropolis home. He thinks you’d have to be an “ American Psycho” to live here.ĭespite arguably making his literary bones in NYC, writer Bret Easton Ellis likely won’t be moving back anytime soon. NYC pad where Bret Easton Ellis wrote ‘American Psycho’ asks $1.5Mīret Easton Ellis TV series ‘American Tabloid’ faces legal battle ‘American Psycho’ author’s new book is even more disturbing
Hey, Bret Easton Ellis: You don’t have the right to complain about NYC
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