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New Book Title: Big Zero

I think this is the third title for Ellis' currently unpublished but long rumored next book. Who really knows which one - if any - it'll actually end up titled as. This could just be Ellis messing with the media like he has about his sexuality. But, Big Zero is at least a realistic sounding title; much better than the Where I Have Been I Would Not Go Back that the last article I mentioned offered up. Here's the interesting stuff:

Ellis has nearly finished his latest book, Big Zero, an autobiographical novel about a Californian writer that he started five years ago. He set it aside for a while because he found himself stumbling over material involving his father, an abusive alcoholic who died in 1992, leaving behind an unexpected $10 million debt.

"There's some stuff about my dad in it that is sort of upsetting to deal with right now," he says. "I thought I'd dealt with a lot of it, but I really hadn't. I really feel the need to write about it, but it's tougher than I thought. And that's ridiculous because it makes writing seem a lot tougher than it is."

Thanks to Patrick for alerting me to this story.

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