The book American Psycho made him world famous overnight in the early 1990s, ‘notoriously unloved’, as Bret Easton Ellis calls it. The enfant terrible of American literature wrote a new novel – Shards – about his teenage years. With Pieter van der Wielen he talks about the freedom of the 1980s and always feeling like an outcast, being canceled before the word even existed, the hard hand of his father and how he forgave him by writing a book . And: about how writers are actually no different from serial killers.
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- Presentation:
- Pieter van der Wielen
- Editorial:
- Mira Sea Merchant
- Production:
- Claire van der Wouden
- mix:
- Audio chief
- Music:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Photo:
- Billy Farrell/Shutterstock