Read Less Than Zero, watch the film, let over 20 years pass, then read the new Bret Easton Ellis (not necessarily in this order). Take two nights for ”a work of limited imagination that all too deftly simulates the effects of having no imagination at all”. Wonder why the NYT didn’t get it, but others did, and think of it as the Rabbit series for our decades, minus the Pulitzer prizes and the number of pages. Find closure and go to bed.
