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My Mentor, Bret Easton Ellis
In Bret Easton Ellis’s work, Jeff Hobbs writes, scenes “of rape and dismemberment and a relentless focus on viscera tended to be the point for many reviewers and outraged op-eds.“ More curious to Hobbs, however, was “the apathetic and cruel ways with which many of his characters behaved towards each other“—a striking contrast with the man he knew.
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In Bret Easton Ellis’s work, Jeff Hobbs writes, scenes “of rape and dismemberment and a relentless focus on viscera tended to be the point for many reviewers and outraged op-eds.“ More curious to Hobbs, however, was “the apathetic and cruel ways with which many of his characters behaved towards each other“—a striking contrast with the man he knew.
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According to Vogue’s linked report, My Mentor, Bret Easton Ellis, In Bret Easton Ellis’s work, Jeff Hobbs writes, scenes “of rape and dismemberment and a relentless focus on viscera tended to be the point for many reviewers and outraged op-eds.“ More curious to Hobbs, however, was “the apathetic and cruel ways with which many of his characters behaved towards each other“—a striking contrast with the man he knew.
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