Book-to-Broadway: American Psycho flops
Despite the elaborate production, timely critique of late capitalism, and conspicuously buff cast, the Broadway adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho—which proved so controversial to readers in the… Read more »
How is American Psycho still causing problems?
The cultural legacy of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 novel about homicidal yuppie Patrick Bateman, is a checkered one, and it’s still going. Though arguably given a second cultural wind in 1999… Read more »
Kanye West and Bret Easton Ellis are working on a movie and it is going to be great (if it actually happens, which it probably won’t)
Kanye West, a talented narcissist, and Bret Easton Ellis, a less talented narcissist, are currently working on a film together, according to Ellis, who is not a genius, like Kanye… Read more »
Who among us is brave enough to speak out against Alice Munro?
It’s a travesty. It offends. It may not be a crime but only because no magistrate could have been depraved enough to think it necessary to guard against the possibility.… Read more »
Literary L.A.: 72 suburbs in search of an author
The L.A. Times just unveiled an interactive map of literary L.A., just in case you happen to be there for the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Or, if you’re not, you… Read more »
Characters from novels can influence real-life behaviour
Put down the Bret Easton Ellis. A study conducted at Ohio State University indicates that our behaviour can be influenced by the fictional characters we read. It’s a phenomenon known… Read more »