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Dazed & Confused Interview

The new issue of Dazed & Confused magazine has an interview with Bret in it. Their website has some excerpts from it.

D&C: Is the character of Robby your way of looking at your own childhood and seeing yourself as a father?

BEE: Robby was me, because I've never been a father. In the book, Bret isn't a great father and I was probably thinking about mine when I wrote about him, and thinking about myself as the son, as Robby, witnessing my parents' strained marriage. Ultimately, it's also amusing to me, but in a sad way, that none of that was supposed to be talked about. My impetus for the book was to write about ghouls and monsters. It wasn't supposed to end up being an investigation into my past. I was thinking back on what has really scared me.

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Fan fiction: An American Psycho Christmas [thanks to t for the heads up]

Video Interview With Ellis

Here is a 25-minute interview with Ellis by a Danish TV host (its in English, though the introduction is not). Ellis talks about Lunar Park, American Psycho, fame, 9/11 and terrorism in what I found to be a great interview.

One of the things I was happy to hear was Bret saying that he would not apologize for American Psycho. He did say that he was more sympathetic with those that were shocked by the book, but wouldn't go so far as to apologize.

He did again say that he wanted to write a sequel to Less Than Zero as his next novel. He followed that up by saying he thinks its probably a bad idea, but that he's likely to do it anyway.

Thanks to Christian for sending this in.

Palm-Star Options Lunar Park

News has finally come out on who bought the film rights to Lunar Park - its Palm-Star Entertainment.

"We believed in Lunar Park so strongly that we put in a pre-emptive bid the very next day after it came to us", said Kevin Frakes, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Palm-Star Entertainment. "We were in a bit of a battle, but it was personal for our company and we went the extra mile to close the deal". Palm-Star has been fielding interest from producers, directors and writers, but are taking their time in packaging the project.

"Lunar Park is the most personal book I've written even if on the surface it reads like a thriller. It took a long time to complete and Palm-Star has known about the book from the beginning. And they witnessed the usual complaints, anxieties, and excitement that occur when you're completing a novel." Concedes author Bret Easton Ellis. "Now it's their turn to move through that process."