Status Updates From The Informers

Even in a Carver-esque exercise in New Yorker-style short stories that build to subtle emotional climaxes, Ellis can't help himself with the vampires. That's okay- I dig vampires, too.

"I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes (I told you I was becoming more philosophical lately)."

"Danny is on my bed and depressed because Ricky was picked up by a break-dancer at the Odyssey on the night of the Duran Duran look-alike contest and murdered."

Is this the most Bret Easton Ellisian sentence of all time?

The summer was drunk and night and warm and the lake.