BRET EASTON ELLIS @ CPC-White

Wednesday, April 17 at 7PM 

BRET EASTON ELLIS
speaking and signing
White

at Central Presbyterian Church

In conversation with Clay Smith from Kirkus Reviews

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• This event takes place at Central Presbyterian Church at 200 E. 8th St, Austin, TX 7870
• Pre-ordered books will be given to ticket holders the day of the event. They are not available for pick-up at BookPeople prior to the event.
• A ticket+book option admits one person to the event, and includes a copy of White. It is $25.95 plus taxes and fees. Or the 2 tickets + 1 book option admits two people to the event with one book and is $35.00 plus taxes and fees.
• Doors open at 6PM. Seating is general admission; first come, first served.. 

Please note: If you purchase a ticket and cannot attend the event, we will hold a copy of White for you at BookPeople for 30 days after the date of the event. You may not pick up the book in advance of the event. 

ABOUT WHITE

Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis’s first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century’s failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what “freedom of speech” truly means.

Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985, earning him devoted fans and, perhaps, even fiercer enemies. An enigmatic figure who has always gone against the grain and refused categorization, he captured the depravity of the eighties with one of contemporary literature’s most polarizing characters, American Psycho’s iconic, terrifying Patrick Bateman. In recent years, his candor and gallows humor on both Twitter and his podcast have continued his legacy as someone determined to speak the truth, however painful it might be, and whom people accordingly either love or love to hate. He encounters various positions and voices controversial opinions, more often than not fighting the status quo.

Now, in White, with the same originality displayed in his fiction, Ellis pours himself out onto the page and, in doing so, eviscerates the perceived good that the social-media age has wrought, starting with the dangerous cult of likeability. White is both a denunciation of censorship, particularly the self-inflicted sort committed in hopes of being “accepted,” and a bracing view of a life devoted to authenticity.

Provocative, incisive, funny, and surprisingly poignant, White reveals not only what is visible on the glittering, pristine surface but also the riotous truths that are hidden underneath.

ABOUT BRET EASTON ELLIS

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of six novels and a collection of stories, which have been translated into thirty-two languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is the host of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon.

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