Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything youย claim toย hold dear.
White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already theย bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has alsoย earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here heย escalates his admonishment of received truths asย expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary andย media communitiesย cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporateย censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke"ย cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of idealsย once bothย cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, White is a clarion call for freedom of speech and artistic freedom.
"The central tension in Ellis's artโor his life, for that matterโis that while [his] aesthetic is the cool reserve of his native California, detachment over ideology, he can't stop generating heat.... He's hard-wired to break furniture."โKaren Heller, Theย Washington Post
"Sweating with rage . . . humming with paranoia."โAnna Leszkiewicz, The Guardian
"Snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow's nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage . . . a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed. It's all here. Rants about Trump derangement syndrome; MSNBC; #MeToo; safe spaces."โBari Weiss, The New York Times
Look for Bret Easton Ellisโs new novel, The Shards!
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