My Mentor, Bret Easton Ellis

In Bret Easton Ellis’s work, Jeff Hobbs writes, scenes “of rape and dismemberment and a relentless focus on viscera tended to be the point for many reviewers and outraged op-eds.“ More curious to Hobbs, however, was “the apathetic and cruel ways with which many of his characters behaved towards each other“—a striking contrast with the man he knew.