Time Out New York

Time Out New York has a short interview with Bret about The Informers film and his upcoming novel, Imperial Bedrooms. They asked a good question about how difficult it was for Bret to put himself back into the proper frame of mind to write about the Less Than Zero characters again.

It was difficult to get back into this guy's voice, even though he's my age. He's in his forties, and it has been 20-some years since the events of that book took place. And now we meet this narrator again at another point in his life. Of course, he's older and wiser and maybe a little bit creepier than he was in the original. It's still essentially the same guy. I had to go back and do a variation on that voice and style of writing. It was a strange position to be in. Can't say it was totally pleasurable, but it was interesting to see how this works.

Thanks to Jack for the heads up on this interview.

Bret In Men's Vogue International

The newest issue of Men's Vogue International has an interview with BEE. The only thing I can find online is a short excerpt in French. The English language cover can be seen here. He apparently talks a bit about Imperial Bedrooms.

Thanks to Matt for the link. Babelfish translation of the French excerpt after the jump.

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Imperial Bedrooms Complete!

Whole bunch of news nuggets today.

Bret's new novel, Imperial Bedrooms is complete and will hit shelves in May 2010. He's also working on trying to re-unite the original case of Less Than Zero for a potential film version of Imperial Bedrooms.

Thanks to Joe McGinnis Jr. for the heads up.

After the jump are some quotes from Bret about Imperial Bedrooms.

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Next For Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms?

So a couple weeks ago I received a copy of The Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss Jr. and as I'm prepping to write a review of it last night (I'm about 1/3 thru with the book currently - its excellent so far) and I come across this review in the Washington City Paper that happened to include a huge tidbit of Bret Easton Ellis News.

Like Ellis' 1985 novel about Los Angeles party kids, Less Than Zero, The Delivery Man's title was inspired by an Elvis Costello song. (So was Ellis' forthcoming novel, a Less Than Zero sequel titled Imperial Bedrooms.)

During the book tour for Lunar Park, Ellis consistently gave the answer that a sequel to Less Than Zero was likely his next project. So now that we've got a title, what do you think of the idea of a sequel?