los angeles fiction bret easton ellis interview and photography by OLIVIER ZAHM All artworks copyright Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis and courtesy of Istock and Gagosian gallery Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel, Less Than Zero, and his latest one, Imperial Bedrooms, are the only ones that take place in Los Angeles, the city where he was born and raised. Yet, his style is infused by a Californian void, paranoia, narcissism, irony, and solitude. And while he never gives a narrator an authorial voice or point of view, his books are about himself and his life. He’s called them all an exorcism. In 2006, he moved back to Los Angeles, where he now lives and writes in a very different city from the one he left when he was still a teenager. OLIVIER ZAHM — Bret, let’s talk about Los Angeles. It’s the city where you work, where you live,…