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American Psycho, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in January, runs 362 pages in edited manuscript. Crawls, actually. Barely distinguishable chapters are stuffed with the brand names of expensive suits, shoes and wristwatches, endless spoofs of nightclubs and restaurants and rambling reviews of pop records. The litany of the trivial is intentional, though Ellis seems to be writing for people who take forever to get the point. Instead of a plot, there is a tapeworm narrative that makes it unnecessary to distinguish the beginning of the novel from...
...shocked over the biding war over the manuscript, but that was separate from me. It was my agent that got so much money for it. I was not involved... I would have published it for free...
...Harvard Lampoon, Bow St.'s self-styled humor organization, has completed the manuscript of its latest work, a book that attempts to condense a Harvard education into 150 pages, Lampoon officers said yesterday...
...Kant believes that it is possible to just KNOW things... [such as] I look better if I comb my hair over my bald spot," the manuscript says...
...Deception, was co-written by Victor Ostrovsky, 40, who holds dual Canadian and Israeli citizenship and became a Mossad agent in the 1980s, and Claire Hoy, 50, a Canadian journalist. The Canadian-born Ostrovsky, who grew up in Israel and now works in Ottawa as an artist, sold the manuscript to Toronto's Stoddart Publishing, which planned to release the book Oct. 4. But two weeks ago, claiming the book contained information that "could have dire consequences for many people," Israeli officials won a temporary injunction in Canada against release of the book's contents. Ostrovsky temporarily went into hiding...