In the early 1980's, Bret played keyboards in some new wave bands.
Influences include: Hemmingway, Joan Didion, Joyce, Flaubert, and Dennis Cooper. Plus "Books, movies, TV and rock and roll."
Simon and Schuster gave Bret a $300,000 advance for American Psycho then refused to publish it after women's groups and women within the company protested. Luckily, the book was picked up by Vintage.
Bret was 23 when his first novel was published.
Novels
Less Than Zero (Penguin Books 1985)
The Rules of Attraction(Simon & Schuster 1987)
American Psycho (Vintage 1991)
The Informers (Vintage 1994)
He is currently working on a novel about the fashion industry titled Glamarama.
