Tag Archives: Bret Easton Ellis
Film, News
Bait: Bret Easton Ellis jumps the shark?
Bret Easton Ellis is reportedly working on a screenplay for a shark horror film. The Guardian and various film sites have reported this week that Ellis is collaborating with Paul Schrader (the screenwriter of such films as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) on a shark-infested psychological horror … Read more
Issue Four
Literary Stalkings: On the Trail of Bret Easton Ellis
When Bret Easton Ellis visited Australia last year, antipodean readers revisited their fascination with the cult American writer and his novels, including new addition Imperial Bedrooms, American Psycho and Less than Zero. Bethanie Blanchard’s essay, ‘Notes from the Underground: Why Bret Easton Ellis Fails on Film’ appears … Read more
From the Editors
Parties, interviews and the gift of the surprising conversation
The Melbourne Writers Festival kicks off today. And if you see an author or publisher looking grey this morning, it’s likely because they stayed too late, drank too much or both at last night’s Text Publishing party, an annual pre-MWF tradition. KYD editor Rebecca Starford left early … Read more
Books
“Armies of the Retarded”: Bret Easton Ellis’s Imperial Bedrooms
Picador $32.99 178pp ISBN 978-0-330-51709-6 ‘I’m freaked out by you kids,’ says Greenberg, in Noah Baumbach’s film of the same name. A paranoid forty-year-old could-have-been rockstar, Greenberg, confronted with a room full of confident Gen Y-ers concludes: ‘I hope I die before I end up meeting one … Read more
