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Classifying Lunar Park

I'm not sure exactly when this was published - it reads to me as months old, but some of the images are very recent - but Dogmatika has a long article exploring Lunar Park as genre fiction.

Ellis Interview, New To Me

Thanks to Mitch in the forum for pointing to this audio interview with Ellis by the BBC from mid 2005. Ellis talks about Lunar Park, American Psycho and a whole lot about Glamorama.

Hi-Def American Pyshco

Lions Gate will be releasing a Blu-ray version of American Psycho in October.

Lunar Park Paperback Cover

It appears that this grey cover is what we are going to get for the Lunar Park paperback cover. Amazon has picked it up as their official product image, and its been on the Vintage website for a few weeks now.

I had been holding out hope that this was just a preliminary design, or a placeholder until the real cover was unveiled - but no luck.

The paperback version is officially released on August 29th, 2006.

Water From The Sun

I'm not sure what the point of this is, but Picador has released Chapters 6 & 7 of The Informers as a stand-alone item called Water From The Sun as part of their new 'Picador Shorts' line of short stories.

Here's the official Picador description:

Introducing 12 intoxicating short stories from 12 of Picador's most exciting writers.

In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books... The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.

Bret Easton Ellis' two short stories chronicle the lives of a group of Los Angeles residents all of them suffering from nothing less that death of the soul. Ellis has immense gift for dialogue, off-the-wall humour, merciless description and exotic bleakness.

Thanks to John for the heads up on this.