He's become the old person version of what he's always been: a moralist masquerading as a satirist. I've unfollowed him on Twitter and do my best to avoid reading news articles about him, as their subject is mostly whatever inflammatory nonsense Ellis has dashed off. He proves that Baby Boomerism isn't a demographic (he's Gen X) but rather a mindset. Thus, it was ever disappointing that Ellis has mostly given up novels and fiction and has instead pivoted to podcast host and near-constant complainer about what he calls Generation Wuss, ie millennials. No other author has cast such a huge influence on my style, my aesthetic preferences, even down to the very typeface used in his novels (Electra). I own first editions of two novels and still own my original Vintage paperback of American Psycho from 2001, since high school. Bret Easton Ellis is perhaps my favourite author.
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