Went to LA Times Festival of Books yesterday to hear Bret Easton Ellis speak. I’m a big fan of LESS THAN ZERO, and Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerny, Donna Tartt, and all their friends were THE cool kids of the literary world when me and my friends were in high school and dying to be writers... hell, it’s why I got into book publishing in the first place, so I could live the life of Bright Lights Big City (well, the female version obvi). And growing up in small town TN there was nothing I wanted more than to be a writer and live in NYC.... and as a publishing assistant I once through dumb luck of being in the right place at the right time ended up getting to go to a Bret Easton Ellis Xmas party in NYC (ummmm, Molly Ringwald was smoking a cig on his balcony and I almost lost my shit)... there were models dressed up like sexy Santa helpers, raucous conversations, people doing drugs in the bathroom, etc.... I wandered around in total awe and took mental notes because I knew I would have to write about it one day... and that party was the inspiration for a big New Years Eve party in my new book Anna K... ANYWAY, BEE spoke about what it means to be an artist which is shaking up the norm, pushing boundaries, being free to express whatever the hell you want and doing it however you want... and how things are so different now in the world of social media versus the 90s... and he’s okay with being unpopular at times. It was such an incredibly funny and fascinating talk! Okay, I’m rambling and sound like a total book nerd, but I’m cool with that... ‘cause it’s true. #haha • • • •#lafob #nerd #writer #author #tvwriter #yaauthor #screenwriter #white #breteastonellis #nyc #la #lessthanzero #brightlightsbigcity #writing #latimes #festivalofbooks #writehardplayhard (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwR7KVQA2Sb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9t5c7sosebjj
