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Bret Easton Ellis
Aug. 23rd, 2015 09:18 am<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
INTERVIEWER
When you say that Less Than Zero “happened,” what do you mean? You just whipped it out and sold it?
ELLIS
No. When I sold Less Than Zero to Simon and Schuster in April 1984, I had been working on that book, in one form or another, for five years, ever since I was a sophomore in high school. There were many different drafts along the way. The earlier drafts were more autobiographical and read like teen diaries or journal entries — lots of stuff about the bands I liked, the beach, the Galleria, clubs, driving around, doing drugs, partying. When I was eighteen, I wrote an entirely new draft, in which the narrator is back in L.A. for Christmas break after a semester spent back East at college. This was the draft I showed to Joe McGinniss, who was teaching at Bennington, and the draft that eventually became the published version.
-- Bret Easton Ellis at The Paris Review (2012)
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INTERVIEWER
When you say that Less Than Zero “happened,” what do you mean? You just whipped it out and sold it?
ELLIS
No. When I sold Less Than Zero to Simon and Schuster in April 1984, I had been working on that book, in one form or another, for five years, ever since I was a sophomore in high school. There were many different drafts along the way. The earlier drafts were more autobiographical and read like teen diaries or journal entries — lots of stuff about the bands I liked, the beach, the Galleria, clubs, driving around, doing drugs, partying. When I was eighteen, I wrote an entirely new draft, in which the narrator is back in L.A. for Christmas break after a semester spent back East at college. This was the draft I showed to Joe McGinniss, who was teaching at Bennington, and the draft that eventually became the published version.
-- Bret Easton Ellis at The Paris Review (2012)
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