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[1] On Apr-10-2008, stephanie wrote:

Great, now I have to go buy this magazine. The things I do for BEE :) It would be awesome if you got a scan of it, but, either way, I have to see this article!

[2] On Apr-10-2008, mitch wrote:

Let us know if it was worth the buy.

[3] On Apr-10-2008, Dave wrote:

Yeah stephanie..let us know how it is!!

[4] On Apr-10-2008, stephanie wrote:

I can not find this magazine anywhere!!! How aggravating. I went to Target and CVS, WTF! Anyone else see the article yet.

[5] On Apr-11-2008, sam wrote:

if someone got it please scan

[6] On Apr-12-2008, Jen wrote:

I would love to see this Article

[7] On Apr-13-2008, Gary wrote:

I live in Ohio, saw it last night at a two-level Barnes & Noble. V is like this really thick, glossy coffee table magazine.

Inside is a spread and interview on Ellis, the artwork is a collage of all of his book covers.

I was going to buy it but it was almost ten dollars and the Ellis spread is only two pages.

[8] On Apr-13-2008, James wrote:

Thanks for being a team player Gary... :)

[9] On Apr-13-2008, stephanie wrote:

ooh. ooh. ooh. I want to see this magazine even more now. I mean, Ellis interviews are scarce. And two pages is more than I even expected. Someone, please get a scan!

Gary, did you read the interview?? What did it say? Any news on the Informers front... please tell. Don't leave us hanging!

[10] On Apr-14-2008, sam wrote:

10 dollars.. whats the prob

[11] On Apr-24-2008, stephanie wrote:

I finally succeeded! I only had to go from Boston to Philadelphia but it was... sort of worth it. Like Gary said, it is only two pages and the majority of it is just the collage of BEE's books' covers. If you read all of BEE's interviews, you probably won't be amazed by anything that is in the article. I sent Bret scans of the article, so they should be up soon.

All the interview really was, was BEE talking about his books turning into movies, his screenwriting, and The Informers adaption (visiting the set, the movie's eighties look, etc.) Not extremely interesting. The only thing I was excited about with this article is that it says the Informers is coming out Summer 08. So I'm ridiculously excited about that confirmation. Sorry for not saying much, but I'm really tired and I want to go to bed! I just got back from a college road trip and I need sleep badly!

[12] On Apr-25-2008, Chris wrote:

I think this is part of the interview from the magazine!

Bret Easton Ellis is sooo over being a famous writer whose novels get made into movies
April 20, 2008 in Bookish, Filmy

Bret Easton Ellis, T. Cole Rachel, The Informers, V Magazine

I failed to mention in my previous post, the two book-related interviews in the current issue of V. First, Bret Easton Ellis chats with pal T. Cole Rachel to promote his film-adaptation for The Informers, set to release in October of this year. The cast includes Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Mary-Kate Olsen, Billy Bob Thornton and the late Brad Renfro, which already seems like a strange amalgam no? The inclusion of Renfro (who died earlier this year of an accidental heroin overdose) seems disturbingly apropos for a BEE project though. Rachel put it best when he says that Ellis� work makes the unsettling statement that �we are $%#@ed.� A collected of losely intertwined short stories, The Informers, was first published in 1994.

In the second interview V editor, Chris Bollen, talks with lit-it-boy (kind of), Keith Gessen of n+1 about his new book � but more on him later. Check out some of what BEE told V after the jump.

On film adaptations of his books (which he didn�t adapt):

As well-made as American Psycho is, I don�t think it really did that. I just think that American Psycho is an un-adaptable book that was turned into a perfectly serviceable movie.

On the current film adaptation of The Informers (which he adapted):

It is, by far, the most expensive film adaptation that�s ever been done for one of my novels and from what I�ve seen it�s the most beautiful looking.

On what the story is about (my fav quote in this piece):

The movie is really about the end of the �70�s and the beginning of the �80�s. It�s about that moment when we realized that everything the �70�s had been about was going to be wiped away�by AIDS, by drugs, by Reagan-era politics. It�s about that moment when this cultural shift took place and everything suddenly felt completely different.

[13] On Apr-28-2008, stephanie wrote:

American Informer
Bret Easton Ellis may be the most controversial, upsetting, dangerous, and critically disregarded writer in American Literature. He may also prove to be one of the most important. As he wraps up work on the film adaption of The Informers, he talks about the many lives of his books

"At the time of its publication in 1994, Bret Easton Ellis's The Informers was a polarizing topic in the literary world. As has been the case with all of the 44-year-old writer's books, the story collection seemed to engender glowing, if somewhat reluctant, admiration or vehement disdain. Most of the time, it was the disdain that won out. The thirteen loosely interwoven stories of desperation, decadence, and general despair in early '80s Los Angeles proved too nihilistic- and perhaps too prescient- for many critics. Despite having been deemed "empty writing about empty lives" by Kirkus, or even less kindly, "as cynical, shallow, and stupid as the people it depicts" by the NY times' Michiko Kakutani, The Informers has, over the years, continued to attract its own cultish fan base. While the book is certainly not as celebrated (or reviled) as Ellis' other best sellers- 1985's Less than Zero, 1991's American Psycho, and 1998's Glamorama- The Informers is arguably one of his masterpieces. Buried under the spare, almost mercilessly sharp prose lays a very genuine sadness and, even more overlooked, a wicked sense of humor. Ellis is much more than a master stylist. His best work makes a very clear statement about what it means to be human, even if that statement is a generally unsettling one: we are fucked.

It's not surprising then that The Informers is the next book in Ellis's back catalog to be given the Hollywood film treatment. Directed by Gregor Jordan, the film's ensemble cast includes Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Billy Bob Thornton. While the author has remained largely disconnected from previous film adaptions, he's served as a screenwriter here to help bring one of his most seemingly unfilmable book to the big screen. Maybe it has taken a decade for the ironies of Ellis's work to become clear to us." T. Cole Rachel

more to come later (a.k.a. the actual interview)

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