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Circa 1980, American writer Bret Easton Ellis began working on a story inspired by film noir and Joan Didion. The first draft, which he brought to his creative writing teacher for feedback, was incredibly emotional and overly written. At the advice of his teacher, Ellis reworked the novel and settled on a much drier, more minimalist style. Five years later, when Ellis was just 21, his debut novel was published. Titled Less than Zero after the Elvis Costello song of the same name, the novel became synonymous with nihilism, the apathetic ways of the rich, and even, according to some,…

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