Hungarian Book Covers

Thanks to Peter for sending in these Hungarian covers of Ellis' books. Everything is here except Lunar Park. Hover over each book if you aren't sure of its American title.

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Japanese Covers of Rules, Informers

Via Tristan, here are some Japanese covers of The Rules of Attraction (on the left) and The Informers. These were actually sent in a very long time ago, but I archived the email before I ever grabbed the attachments.

Ellis Interview

The Morning News has an interview up with Bret by Robert Birnbaum. Robert has chatted with Bret a few times over the past couple of years, so his interview is quite different than most folks because he doesn't have to ask the obvious questions. [Thanks to Tim and Settemod for sending this in]

The only real future project nugget is Bret's response when asked about The Informers:

BEE: And that has a script and looks like it's going to go, yeah.

This would be the Nicholas Jarecki script mentioned last year, so hopefully its still progressing.

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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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.

Open Thread: Rules Of Attraction

An open thread for discussions of Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 29

Japanese version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 19

French version of The Rules of Attraction.

UPDATE Per reader Albedo, this is not a French version.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 18

French version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 3

Note that this book was titled Simply Irresistible in Germany.

2nd German version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 2

Note that this book was titled Simply Irresistible in Germany.

German version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 1

Over the next three weeks, I'm going to be posting the foreign cover art from each of Bret Easton Ellis' novels. Foreign cover art has always interested me because I find it amazing that a novel can be packaged and presented so differently from one country to another.

This is a UK version of The Rules of Attraction.