Reflections of a Valley Boy
In the June issue of Los Angeles magazine, in a piece titled ”Reflections of a Valley Boy,” I profile my old college classmate Bret Easton Ellis. The occasion is the 25th anniversary of his debut, Less Than Zero, and the publication next month of a sequel, Imperial Bedrooms, but the interview also became a chance for Bret and I to reminisce and reflect and relive an oddly captivating evening from 1984 when, while on break from Bennington, he introduced me to the Polo Lounge.
“This is craaazy,” he says. “What are we doing?”