Bret Eason Ellis review

To say that an Ellis novel is an indictment of the modern world is pretty much beside the point: the modern world is its own indictment, and doesn’t need any help from novelists to communicate its moral, historical, and psychological vacuity. No, an Ellis novel is an indictment of the notion that literature can do anything about that situation. It’s an indictment of us, in other words—of readers and writers and reviewers and editors and all the other people sustaining fiction’s greatest fiction: that fiction has value outside of the context in which it’s written, published, and read. 

- Dale Peck, "The Bret East Ellis review Out was afraid to run..."