Episode Directory
The Shards... Listen to Bret read the unedited initial draft of his latest novel as originally serialized exclusively on the podcast from September 2020 - September 2021... Experience an unprecedented collision of audio and literature as Bret takes you on a mesmerizing ride back to 1981 Los Angeles:
Golden Classics... The previously elusive first season of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast from 2013-14, exclusively available to Gold and Platinum members:
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Season 9 Episodes:
S9E39: Slow Revelations with Bruce Wagner
S9E38: Blessed Dirt Roads with Bruce Wagner
S9E34: 1984 with Richard Shepard
S9E32: Motel California with Chino Moya
S9E31: Divine Touch with Scott Alexander
S9E30: Accidental Martyrs with James Frey
S9E29: Magnets with Kelly Loudenberg and Makiko Wholey
S9E27: Favorite Year with Richard Shepard
S9E26: Jolting Bolt with Richard Shepard
S9E22: Kabuki Skew with Ross Barkan
S9E21: Trojan Horse with Larry Karaszewski
S9E20: Relentless Thing with Daniel Waters
S9E19: The Key and The Code with Eugene Kotlyarenko
S9E18: Genius and Lust with Matthew David Wilder
S9E16: Odd Detail with Lili Anolik
S9E15: Laid Back Vibe with Sascha Ciezata
S9E13: Writing About Atlantis with Blake Bailey
S9E12: Pulped with Blake Bailey
S9E11: Masks Outrageous with Reza Sixo Safai
S9E10: Sacred Texts with Bruce LaBruce
S9E9: The Bull and the Boar with Bruce LaBruce
S9E8: The Bad and the Beautiful with Karina Longworth
S9E7: Saying Everything with Ione Skye
Season 8 Episodes:
S8E49: Going Native with Jamie Collinson
S8E48: Splinter of Ice with Jamie Collinson
S8E47: The Madness of Crowds with Justine Bateman
S8E46: Details and Remembrances
S8E45: Split Selves with Colonel Kurtz
S8E44: Strain of Thinking with Colonel Kurtz
S8E42: The Math of It with Josh Olson
S8E41: The Nexus with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
S8E40: From the Hip with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
S8E38: Fresh Idea with Randy Fertel
S8E37: Napoleon Complex with Matthew David Wilder
S8E36: State of the Art with Matthew David Wilder
S8E35: The Summer of Spielberg with Chris Nashawaty
S8E34: Proof of Concept with Chris Nashawaty
S8E33: A Strange Marriage with Stephen Soucy
S8E32: Bret's Best of 2024 (so far) - Part 2
S8E31: Bret's Best of 2024 (so far) - Part 1
S8E30: Polarizing Figure with Mikko Makela
S8E29: Tripping Down Memory Lane
S8E24: Another Kind of Truth with David Shields
S8E23: Beautiful Noise with Susanna Hoffs
S8E22: Playing With Dolls with Susanna Hoffs
S8E21: Problems With Translations
S8E20: One Is The Loneliest Wonder
S8E17: Mechanical Alien with Chandler Morrison
S8E15: Gimme Dread Till I'm Dead
S8E14: Hawking Some Tent with Robbie Banfitch
S8E13: Decent Poppins with Shane Cashman
S8E12: A Fly on the Wall with Lance Oppenheim
S8E11: Strange Dimension with Dante Colle
S8E9: The Hazing Ritual with Katherine Brodsky
S8E5: Mr. Lonelyhearts Returns
S8E2: Pure Wave with Roy Price
S8E1: Digital Dawn with Roy Price
Season 7 Episodes:
S7E47: Bad Dream Scenario with Brandon Graham
S7E46: The Baron of Marylou's with Drea de Matteo
S7E45: Elective Affinities with Sam Wasson
S7E44: Method Director with Sam Wasson
S7E43: Cinema Speculating with Quentin Tarantino
S7E42: Point of Departure with Quentin Tarantino
S7E39: Bruce Wagner and Beverly D'Angelo, Part 2
S7E38: Bruce Wagner Guest Hosts with Beverly D'Angelo
S7E37: Sam Wasson Guest Hosts with Colleen Camp
S7E36: Survival Tactics with Kat Timpf
S7E35: Hotel Oregon with Max Lawton
S7E34: Graphomaniacs with Max Lawton
S7E31: State of Surveillance with Alex Kazemi
S7E30: Algorithm Hellhole with Alex Kazemi
S7E28: Dance of Scorpions with Robert Asahina
S7E27: Image of an Artist with Robert Asahina
S7E26: 'Neath The Refinery's Glow with Warren Zanes
S7E25: Practically In The Present with Warren Zanes
S7E24: Word Dissociation with Alice Carriere
S7E23: Spilling The Rubied Yolk with Alice Carriere
S7E18: Investigating Creation with Kristoffer Borgli
S7E17: The New Economy with Kristoffer Borgli
S7E16: Theater of The Uncomfortable with Guinevere Turner
S7E15: Contradictory Doctrine with Guinevere Turner
S7E14: Impressions and Interiors with Jordan Firstman
S7E11: The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks
S7E9: Weird Protectionism with Matt Battaglia
S7E5: Menace To Society with Maria Semple
S7E4: Cherished Awareness with Maria Semple
S7E3: Guilty Pleasures and Secret Habits with Matty Healy
S7E2: Postmodern Tendencies with Matty Healy
Season 6 Episodes:
S6E37: Destination Pinnacle with John Shanks
S6E36: Missing the Bridge with John Shanks
S6E35: Levitating Home with Shane Cashman
S6E34: Sliding Into Existential Renaissance with Shane Cashman
S6E32: Sitting Through the End Credits
S6E29: Chronicling a Lost Continent with Walter Kirn
S6E28: Back In The High Life Again with Bruce Wagner
S6E26: Book of Ghosts with Sam Wasson
S6E25: The Birth of a Galaxy with Sam Wasson
S6E24: Typical Icarus with Max Landis
S6E23: Deconstructing the Blueprint with Max Landis
S6E22: Barbarian at the Gate with J.D. Lifshitz
S6E21: Star Charts and Biorhythms
S6E20: The Park Was Never Built with The Perfume Nationalist
S6E19: Dropping Names with Tom Holland
S6E18: Seeming Awfully Normal with A.M. Homes
S6E17: How To Psychoanalyze Your Neighbors with A.M. Homes
S6E15: The Mundane and The Luminous
S6E14: Positive Perversion with James Morosini
S6E13: My Father, My Catfish with James Morosini
S6E12: A Museum of Hell with Jerry Stahl
S6E11: The Many Gifts of Tender Shlomo with Jerry Stahl
S6E7: Frigid Cracks in the Statue with Stephanie Danler
S6E6: Serving the Algorithm with Stephanie Danler
S6E5: Nothing Anywhere All at Once
S6E4: James Kirchick & The Secret City
S6E2: William Friedkin Meets Bret Easton Ellis, Part 2
S6E1: William Friedkin Meets Bret Easton Ellis, Part 1