Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president. The 1980s novelist has a new career 'triggering millennials' — or what he calls 'Generation Wuss.'
Bret Easton Ellis at his home in West Hollywood, with copies of his new essay collection, “White.” By Karen Heller Karen Heller National general features writer for Style Email Bio Follow April 24 at 11:00 AM NEW YORK — Bret Easton Ellis wants you to know that he cares squat about politics.
In “White,” he claims his artistic mission “is to present an aesthetic, things that are true without having to be factual or immutable.” The central tension in Ellis’s art — or his life, for that matter — is that while that aesthetic is the cool reserve of his native California, detachment over ideology, he can’t stop generating heat.
“Q: So he says lots of racist things . . . Why does people being upset about it, or people being upset about the fact that we have a President who regularly says bigoted things, bother you?The author mentioned it to a crowd of 400 adoring readers a few days later. “I got punk’d,” he says. “Yes, I was flailing.” Also, “I own it.”
[Review: In ‘White,’ Bret Easton Ellis baits his critics with morsels specially tooled to create outrage.] “You can never take anything he says straight,” his friend Jay McInerney once told the Guardian. “He’s always gone for effect.”
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