Thank you for your pledge! We've got a new episode ready for you with Part 25 of The Shards and a guest who you've seen in movies and on TV for years... Gold is out now, Silver coming at you today at 5pm Pacific Time. Wishing you all a rockin' week out there.
2021-08-09 13:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The crowd at Terry's party in Stone Canyon leaves shocked and baffled after the evening ends abruptly in Part 24 of The Shards. Bret then reviews a few flicks from 2021 and reflects on a conversation from the podcast's early days.
2021-07-27 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! This juggernaut of an episode will go down in history as one of the most excellent audio experiences ever achieved. We have a new episode for you with Part 24 of The Shards and Bret reviewing some movies from this year, as well as some extra sauce thrown on top for flavor. Gold is out now, Silver coming on Monday at 5pm Pacific. Bret and Quentin brought that serious heat.
2021-07-25 01:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret takes a new approach to his relationship with Robert Mallory as the two head to Bel Air for Terry's party in Part 23 of The Shards. Quentin Tarantino and Bret discuss novelizing Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, the appeal of problematic fictional characters and revising the narrative of a tragic Hollywood icon.
2021-07-13 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! We are putting the finishing touches on a whopper of a new episode for you with Part 23 of The Shards and a living, breathing guest... Gold will be posted in about an hour, Silver on Monday at 5pm Pacific. Get ready to ride the lightning.
2021-07-11 01:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
After an evening out in Westwood with Ryan takes an unexpected turn, Bret meets someone who knows all about Robert Mallory in Part 22 of The Shards. Filmmaker/Writer/Actor Sean Stone and Bret discuss the creative damage done by the corporate mindset, growing up on movie sets and documenting the making of his dad's Alexander.
2021-06-29 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! For those of you out there wondering: yes, the cassette pictured above is the actual tape from this episode of The Shards. Brand new show for you on tap with some brand new Shards and a brand new guest... Gold coming real soon today at 5pm Pacific, Silver on Monday at 5pm. Hope you are beating the heat.
2021-06-26 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret returns from Palm Springs to find a disturbing delivery waiting for him at home in Part 21 of the Shards. We then travel back in time to hear a classic B.E.E. conversation with a living film legend.
2021-06-15 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! We've got a brand new episode for you this weekend with Part 21 of The Shards and another trip backwards in time. Gold coming up in less than an hour at 5pm HDT (Hollywood Daylight Time), Silver on Monday at 5pm HDT. Hope your weekend is off to a rockin' start. We love you.
2021-06-12 23:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post
With Thom Wright out of town, Bret tracks down Susan in the desert and finds she is not alone in Part 20 of The Shards. Filmmaker and musician Robert Schwartzman and Bret discuss founding Utopia Media, gaining valuable perspective through loss and the parallels between the movie and music industries.
2021-06-01 00:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! In true Memorial Day Weekend fashion, we did not forget about you. We are getting ready to tap the podcast pony keg and pour you a frothing new episode with Part 20 of The Shards and a guest who you've seen on the big screen and heard pumping on your stereo. Gold will be served up later today, Silver on Sunday. Enjoy some B.E.E. Podcast with your extra long weekend.
2021-05-29 21:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A trip to the beach skids to a bloody conclusion before Bret is left puzzled and eager by a friend's unexpected request in Part 19 of The Shards. Bret then guides you through a sonic timewarp back to 2017 to revisit a classic B.E.E. conversation with a star of the silver screen.
2021-05-17 01:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! Insightful talk with Tim. We've got Part 19 of The Shards for you this weekend and we're also doing something we haven't done lately: Timewarpin'. Gold coming at you in a couple of hours, Silver on Sunday. You look fantastic! Have you been working out?
2021-05-15 20:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Susan Reynolds throws her party for Robert Mallory and a late night of tension and revelation ensues in Part 18 of The Shards. Director Tim Hunter and Bret discuss growing up in the darkness of the Hollywood blacklist, the teenage bleakness of River's Edge and working with each other on The Smiley Face Killers.
2021-05-03 03:53:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! Bret + Joe = Movie Talk Supreme. New episode coming at you this weekend with yet another director who has delivered quality horror flicks to movie theaters as well as cyber streams... Part 18 of The Shards, too... Gold on Saturday, Silver on Sunday. Stay cool.
2021-05-01 01:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret
Easton
Ellis Books presents
The Great Gatsby. The old classic for a new age.
contact bret.assistant@gmail.com for inquiries
Dear Patrons,
Thank you so much for your ongoing support. I have been retweeting really brilliant tweet reviews of The Shards from Bret's Twitter account so that we can get the word out. Please, keep them coming, they're delightful.
The Hollywood Reporter - Our online store was written up in The Hollywood Reporter by Chris Gardner. I attached the pdf of the issue below.
Free Shipping This Week - Monday through Friday, in US and Canada, Bret Easton Ellis Books is offering free shipping on all book sets and bookmarks.
Late items - If you have not received your order, please bare with me just one bit more and send me an email with your order and shipping address. We are almost in the phase where I can click a button and get it sent, but it has been more work than I expected. email bret.assistant@gmail.com
Writing Workshops - I'm running ongoing writer workshops in various areas (Short Story, Novel, and Poem) on Facebook. Please join the Facebook group. Please do not be confrontational on Patreon. You can do it all you want on the Facebook page. Be on your best behavior on Patreon. For BEE.
In other news, we have a very special project coming to Iceland and we're excited to tell you when it's further along, but big Bret Easton Ellis news is coming.
I hope you're all doing well this year and are enjoying The Shards. Bret is literally hard at work every single day with a singular focus: to finish The Shards. He waxes hypochondriacal, threatening no one in particular that it won't get done. It's a massive undertaking and the hard work is paying off.
Please email me at bret.assistant@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. Do not send abusive messages, regardless of the circumstance. I am 100 percent open to hearing from you.
xoxoTodd
Bret spends his Sunday anxiously anticipating an important afternoon meeting in Beverly Hills in Part 17 of The Shards. Filmmaker Joe Lynch and Bret discuss the unbridled bombast of Spielberg's 1941, the crude beauty of A Serbian Film and the recently released Snyder cut of 2017's Justice League.
2021-04-19 03:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! Make sure to catch Crisis if you haven't done so already. New episode for you this weekend with Part 17 of The Shards and a guest who loves genre films so much that he started making them himself. Gold coming in a couple of hours, Silver on Sunday. Stay groovy.
2021-04-17 22:12:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Homecoming is fast approaching at Buckley and the student body is shaken by a shocking rift in Part 16 of The Shards. Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki and Bret discuss the unfortunate erosion of the communal moviegoing experience, the many challenges of making Crisis and the critical consequences a film can suffer when one of its stars becomes the subject of a scandal.
2021-04-05 01:58:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! Make sure to keep a close eye on Lance as his bright filmmaking future unfolds. We have a new episode for you this weekend with a brand new installment of The Shards and a guest who is making his triumphant return to the podcast after his phenomenal first appearance a few years back. Gold coming up in a couple of hours, Silver on Sunday. Hope your spring is off to a lovely start.
2021-04-03 22:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostAfter fielding hundreds of orders myself, with a complex and varied array of books, editions, bookmarks, signed, etc. I knew it was no longer feasible for me to run the fulfillment of these very valuable items.
These signed books are treasures that I suspect will multiply in value over the next ten years and more so in 20, etc.
There will not be any more first edition hardcover Glamoramas. The catalog is rife with beauty from the prose to the covers to the binding.
The limited and tactile nature of the items, along with the signature of the man himself, is what makes them treasures.
Please, peruse the store, and see what connects with you. Remember, these are artifacts and special items. I will never devalue BEE. And anyone who would... can talk to Robert Mallory.
More items will be added very regularly in the coming weeks.
You guys made this happen and I am incessantly grateful to those of you who have been patient with me and even those that have demanded refunds and even those who I’m still working it out with.
I am not going anywhere and I will see to it that if you have ordered anything from me and are still waiting, please email bret.assistant@gmail.com
i am committed to the BEE community. i am here for you. There are 4 writers workshops happening within the facebook group started by star patron Chris Carroll.
feel free to reach out to me on facebook if youre interested in being a part of one or even if you just want to say hey. i love you guys and you have impressed me a lot with your writing and commitment to the workshops and your general friendliness and openmindedness.
Thank you BEEP community.
xoxoTodd
2021-03-31 06:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Definitely subscribe for the full article. It's great and a great look at the events of the past few years as they concern Bret's works (namely White) and Bret as a larger entity.
Andrea Long Chu was having a bad day I think.
Bret embraces a radical new approach to distract his mind from its menacing dread in Part 15 of The Shards. Filmmaker Lance Oppenheim and Bret discuss documenting life in the margins of manufactured paradise in Some Kind of Heaven, making persistence pay off with Darren Aronofsky and the cut-throat competition for distribution at Sundance.
2021-03-22 01:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret embraces a radical new approach to distract his mind from menacing dread in Part 15 of The Shards. Filmmaker Lance Oppenheim and Bret discuss documenting life in the margins of manufactured paradise in Some Kind of Heaven, making persistence pay off with Darren Aronofsky and the cut-throat competition for distribution at Sundance.
2021-03-21 02:01:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! Ryan was a true gentleman and a breeze to record with. It's the first weekend of spring '21 and to celebrate the birds/bees/flowers/whatever we have a new episode for you with some fresh new Shards and a young filmmaker who emerged from the Florida swamp and is swiftly making a name for himself in the Hollywood swamp... Gold coming at you in a few hours, Silver on Sunday. Stay healthy, stay safe, stay groovy. We love you.
2021-03-20 21:19:21 +0000 UTC View Post
An unlikely source delivers Bret some grisly details surrounding Matt Kelner's murky demise in Part 14 of The Shards. Writer Ryan Leone and Bret discuss crafting a novel in a prison computer lab, losing everything to the pleasure of the needle and the archaic politics of prison society.
2021-03-08 01:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your pledge! Griffin was a most fascinating visitor indeed. New episode for you this weekend with another installment of The Shards and a guest who endured a transgressive chapter of life and lived to write about it. Gold on Saturday, Silver on Sunday. Wishing you a healthy and warm weekend brimming with podcast pleasure.
2021-03-06 12:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post
