Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 novel The Shards is a metafictional work that follows a character named Bret Ellis who is targeted by a serial killer during his senior year at an elite private school in Los Angeles. Critics praised it as Ellis’s strongest work in years and an effectively schlocky and nostalgic look at the early 1980s. In 2026 it was adapted into a television series for FX by Ellis and Ryan Murphy.
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