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Italian Review of Lunar Park

An review of Lunar Park, in Italian from Black Mail Mag. You can read the translated version here.

Another Exquisite Corpse

Knopf is having another exquisite corpse game for Halloween. There aren't any prizes this time, but they are writing a ghost story. Should be fun.

Lunar Park Reviews

I continue to add to the Lunar Park review thread. There are now 57 reviews linked.

Review: You Will Behave

I got the chance to read a new novella called You Will Behave by Matt Getty over the past week or so while traveling. It was very different style of book than what I usually read, in that it was very short and quite funny. I'm not sure why, but I can't remember the last time I read a book that was actually funny.

You Will Behave is also different in that its written in the 2nd person future tense. The story revolves around a mother chastising her young son after he sodomized his sister's Sparkle Beach Barbie with Darth Vader's light-saber.

If that sounds odd, well it is. And it gets even more weird as the mother continues laying into her son and in effect, predicting his entire life based on this episode.

Overall, a good book, and a great change of pace from what I'm used to reading.

Rating: 7.0

French Book Covers

Here is a French cover for American Psycho that I hadn't seen before.


There is also an image of a variant French cover for The Rules Of Attraction thats kinda neat after the jump.
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Italian Cover For The Informers

Thanks to Matt, here is the Italian cover for The Informers. This book was actually re-titled in Italy to Acqua Dal Sole which translates to Water from the Sun. I believe this book was also re-titled elsewhere in Europe to Zombies.

Interview and Italian Book Covers

Andrew Billen interviewed Bret for The Times Online and I realized that I never posted it to the site. Included in the interview is the first definitive statements I've seen about who Michael Wade Kaplan was (the book is dedicated to him and Bret's father). As per usual though, the best is saved for last when Bret is asked about the scene in the book where he inherits all his father's suits only to find that the crotches are blood covered from a botched penile implant.

Assure me, I say, that that detail was made up. "No," he (Ellis) says. "That one's true." I blanch. "Sorry," he says, "you wanted to know."

Also, thanks to a comment left by Davidian in another thread, we now know what the Italian cover for Lunar Park looks like (pictured above). Its not bad, but certainly not great.

The Italian cover's for Bret's other books are after the jump.
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Ellis Audio Interview @ Five Live

Thanks to Nils for giving me a heads up to the 16 minute audio interview with Bret that has been put up over at the BBC's Five Live site. I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

European Tour Dates

I don't know all of the European tour dates, but when I do, they'll be put here - and there will be a link to them in box on the top right hand corner of the site.

According to the official Netherlands BEE site, Bret is going to make an appearance in Koningsplein on October 15th at 3PM. [thanks Servaas]

I also notice that the Netherlands has a different book cover for Lunar Park than I've seen anywhere else - the moon is brown instead of grey, more of a harvest moon I guess. They also spell Bret's name wrong in the title and in alot of the head tags.

Here are the remaining foreign book covers from the site. Suprisingly nothing there for The Informers.

Lunar Park UK Trailer

The UK site for Lunar Park - Lunar-Park.com has been re-launched to include a Flash video that serves as a trailer for the book. I can't remember seing a book trailer before.

The site also includes a Q&A with Bret, and the UK tour dates.

American Psycho Review

I'm not sure why its being run so many years after the fact, but the South End Newspaper of Wayne State University has put up a review of American Psycho.

Ellis MP3 Interview w/ Bat Segundo

An MP3 interview with Bret Easton Ellis on the Bat Segundo Show. There are a ton of topics covered in the 50+ minute long interview.

Powells.com has also added an interview with Bret.

European Interviews Start

Now that Ellis is kicking off his European book tour, the interviews will start anew - The Independent is first. The most poignant moment in the interview comes when Ellis is asked if he ever wished Less Than Zero had never become a success:

"Ahhhh..." he says. "You know, I don't know why I suddenly feel like crying when you ask me that. I suddenly just feel incredibly emotional, and I suddenly feel... uh... like crying. Why? I don't know."

"Yes," he says quietly. "I often wonder - sometimes - if that book had not been... well, say it hadn't been a success, or hadn't been published at all, what my life would have been like. Would it have been happier? That's the question that haunts me a lot. Would it have been another life without all the complexities and weirdness that this life had?

"I wanted to be a musician," he goes on. "Just writing songs, making music, that always made me happy. And right now, when I'm in this mid-career retrospective and I'm going through some sort of midlife crisis, I am vulnerable to accepting the idea that maybe there was another road that could've been taken. And maybe I'd have ended up happier. But I hope no one ever asks me that again, because I don't want to burst into tears in front of a reporter."

Ellis Interview & Bio

Tom Waters' interview with Bret and his Ellis bio article are both up and available over at Acid Logic.

Lunar Park Audio CD Reviews

The Stranger has a review of the Lunar Park audio CD - it is read by James Van Der Beek.

If Lunar Park has to be read, this is the best way - by a former teen star who wouldn't recognize irony if it broke his face, and who is claiming to be a character named Bret Easton Ellis in a fictional memoir and just-foolin' mea culpa that turns into a disjointed haunted-house story. It's all so meta I could just about shit.

You can buy the Lunar Park audio CD from Amazon

Less Than Zero Sequel Seems Likely

JAM! Books has another interview with Ellis about Lunar Park and the future. There isn't much new information in the interview, but Ellis does put some additional weight behind the idea that he's going to write a sequel of sorts to Less Than Zero.

"I have a Nicholas Sparks book in me somewhere," he laughs. "Seriously though, I've been thinking about it a lot. I've been thinking of Less than Zero, and where those characters are now. Part of me thinks it's a truly terrible idea, but unless I'm hit by a bus it looks likes it's going to be the next book."

Limited Edition Lunar Park

There is a new limited edition, boxed version of Lunar Park that is going to be released in the UK on October 7th. You can order the book by clicking here or on the cover image below.

Lunar Park Movie Rights Acquired

The movie rights to Lunar Park have been sold. At this point, I'm creating a Lunar Park Movie category for the site.

Previous discussion here and here.