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Song For Clay

UK indie band Bloc Party's upcoming album is going to have a track called Song for Clay that was inspired by the character from Ellis' novel Less Than Zero. [Thanks to Jay for the link]

At the link above, there is an interview w/ the band, and a listing of their US tour dates that runs thru August.

Lunar Park Paperback Tour, Cover

Random House has put up the remainder of the Lunar Park paperback tour dates. We also get a small image of what will apparently be the US paperback cover. Below are all the currently known dates:

9/24/2006
6pm UCLA Armand Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-443-7038

9/26/2006
7:30pm Tattered Cover Bookstore
1628 16th Street
Denver, CO 80202
303-436-1070

9/27/2006
7:30pm Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80302
303-447-2074

9/28/2006
7pm Borders Books
3750 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53705
608-232-2600

9/29/2006
7pm Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-662-7407

10/2/2006
7pm Barnes & Noble
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-253-0810

10/3/2006
7pm Free Library of Philadelphia (Central Library)
1901 Vine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341

10/4/2006
7pm Regulator Bookshop
720 9th Street
Durham, NC 27705
919-286-2700

10/5/2006
7pm Book People
603 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78703
512-472-5050

Jarecki Confirms Informers Film!

The rumor of a Nicholas Jarecki directed adaptation of The Informers first surfaced in May of 2005, but it now appears to be on the verge of being realized. In an interview with CHUD.com, Jarecki talks about his film about James Toback [thanks to Frank for the tip] called Outsider and when asked about future planned projects he has this to say:

In the fall I'm going to direct a new film called The Informers, which I've written with Bret Easton Ellis, based on his best-selling book of the same name. We wrote this very crazy, multi-character, Short Cuts/Boogie Nights type movie that takes place in 1983 in Los Angeles and is about a rock star and a movie studio president and his wife and his mistress and a vampire and a kidnapper.

Jarecki also talks about the process he went thru to get Bret on board with this adaptation. This should be an interesting project to follow. Because The Informers is easily Bret's least recognized novel, I wonder how many casual Ellis fans will be drawn in to a story that they may have skipped previously.

IHG Horror/Dark Fantasy Awards

Lunar Park has been nominated for an International Horror Guild in the category of horror/dark fantasy. [thanks to Nadin for the heads up] The other nominees in this category are:

Elizabeth Kostova. The Historian

Hilary Mantel. Beyond Black

Peter Raftos. The Stone Ship

Carl-Johan Vallgren. The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred

June 20, 2006
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Lunar Park, Paperback of the Week

Lunar Park has been named the paperback of the week by The Observer.

The paperback edition of Lunar Park gets released in the US on August 15th.