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Possible Title of New Ellis Book

From an interview in The Harvard Crimson way back in 1999, Ellis mentions a future autobiographical project - which was confirmed as in progress as of Oct 2002 with the title of "Where I Have Been I Would Not Go Back".

Also, reader Matt K writes in again with a link to this Tammy Bruce article (she was a major player in the feminist stink raised about the American Psycho novel), where she appears to be bragging that her protests got Glamorama censored by Ellis' publisher as well. Neither Matt or I have ever heard anything about Glamorama being censored previously, and I am of the opinion that this is just wishful thinking on the part of Ms. Bruce. Anybody know differently?

Entertainment Weekly Takes Shot At Ellis

The story is here (subscription required), but thanks to reader Matt K, here is a little snippit of Ellis being lumped into some derogatory comments about Chuck Palahniuk readers:

His fans---many of them young men, unemployed, or making do on minimum wage, tattooed and pierced, with black Sharpie pen on their nails and cut-off Dickies and red laces through their Chuck Taylors---lap up his stories, so thrilled are they to be in their hero's presence. See, they didn't really read before. Maybe some Marvel comics or fantasy novels, maybe some Bret Easton Ellis. But they saw this movie Fight Club and something took hold and suddenly they're buying hardcovers and standing in line for three hours to meet a writer."
- by Karen Varby | 9.26.03 Entertainment Weekly

Beating up on Palahniuk seems to be the fashionable thing to do this summer.

ALA's Banned Books Week

Yesterday kicked off the American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week. Ellis' American Psycho ranks as the 60th most challeneged book.

Ellis Quoted In Article About Chip Kidd

Like me before reading this article, you likely don't know who Chip Kidd is though you've seen plenty of his work. Kidd is hailed as the world's greatest book-jacket designer, who has also turned himself into an author in his own right with The Cheese Monkeys, which includes a blurb from Bret Easton Ellis on the jacket sleeve (not in the US edition).

Not only has Chip Kidd altered the face of publishing with his revolutionary book jackets, he has also written a really good debut novel [the bastard]. - Bret Easton Ellis

Ellis is also mentioned in an article in 'The Age' about Australia's censorship laws. I never realized that Australia had such strict laws, but apparently American Psycho was classified as a Category 1 publication - requiring it to be sealed in plastic, restricted to those 18 and over, and was banned outright in Queensland.

Christian Bale Is The New Batman

Christian Bale - who played the lead in the American Psycho movie - has been selected to play Batman in Christoper Nolan's (Memento) adaptation.

Said Nolan, "What I see in Christian is the ultimate embodiment of Bruce Wayne. He has exactly the balance of darkness and light that we were looking for."

I realize this is only tangentially related to Bret Easton Ellis, but there has been such a complete void of news over the past month that this is the best I can do right now.