My style inspo for summer is an autofiction horror novel

I'll be unpacking The Shards for months, but I'm borrowing its aesthetic ASAP

I read Less Than Zero in 2009 and was so enamored by Ellis’ ability to communicate the bleak glamour attached to coming-of-age 1980s Los Angeles that it lifted me out of a years-long reading rut. Ellis made me realize that fiction didn’t have to be self-serious to be “good.” It could be irreverent, sexy, and disturbing. When I found out (granted, a y…