Catch This: Bret Easton Ellis

Near the end of Bret Easton Ellis' novel Less Than Zero, Clay, the book's main character, remarks to his rich, spoiled, urbanite friend (and drug dealer) Rip – "You have everything." 

Rip replies – "No I don't. I have nothing to lose."

It's the chilling center of that novel and the materialist decade of the 1980s. Twenty-five years later, Clay returns in Ellis' new novel Imperial Bedrooms, which Ellis will read from and discuss tonight at Elliot Bay Book Company. 

In Bedrooms, Clay, now a New York-based screenwriter, returns to LA to cast his latest film. Older, but now back in contact with the skewed people from his youth, Clay falls into an alcoholic and sexual haze, passing through a noir maze intertwined with modern Hollywood where dark vehicles stalk Clay, killers lurk and cryptic messages appear everywhere. 

Dystopia, perversion and listlessness: the book's themes fit in well with its parent and Ellis' complete catalogue. 

Reading starts at 8:00pm.

Thanks to RodneyRamsey on Flickr for the awesome pic of downtown LA. 

Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave.