Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Bleeder of the Pack American Psycho, the latest novel by brat-pack golden boy Bret Easton Ellis, 26, contained detailed descriptions of female mutilations that outraged women staff members at Simon & Schuster, Ellis' publisher. Did that give S&S second thoughts? Nope. But shortly before the book was to hit the stores, bad press notices finally persuaded the firm to scrap the project and forfeit the reported $300,000 advance...
...PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING
...rides are hell," Kathy says, "It's bad enough when we take unknown side streets and unmarked roads to get to the games, but the rides home are the worst. Imagine fifteen smelly girls packed into a van not made to hold half that many with a psycho at wheel...that's a road trip...
...would be naive to think that American Psycho will not find its market, although some stores might be shy about displaying the book prominently, and an Ellis promotion tour might run into resistance. Even Geraldo might take a pass...
...write superficially about superficiality and disgustingly about the disgusting and call it, as Ellis does, a challenge to his readers' complacency does violence to his audience and to the fundamental nature of his craft. So when editor Asahina comes to his writer's defense by claiming that American Psycho "succeeds in taking readers into the mind of a madman," the obvious question is, How long do they have to stay there? Ten pages, 50 pages, 150 pages? Less than zero...