Non-Writer Obituaries

[Leseratte]

Interesting question.

I hope I'm wrong, but I more and more notice that, due the dysfunctions of "cancelling culture" and "#metoo movement", a writer who writes something about a "rapist" will be branded as mysoginist, will be sued and the work will never published.

I think too that it depends very much on how it is done, but often the evaluations are very narrow minded.

 

[Cleanthess]

The juice has a small cameo role in the second part of the great French novel, Madame Bovary, also known as The Kugelmass Episode
by Woody Allen

 

[dc007777]

I don't know the reality in North-American, but in my country freedom of speech and creativity in Arts no longer exists here.

I can't speak for all of North America but in the US the reality is... (drumroll) American Psycho is now being sold in Target, a retail/grocery store. I'm still a little surprised everytime I roll past the book section and see it.

Also, sticking with the Ellis train his latest novel The Shards (which is excellent by the way) seemed to be the read of hip, twenty-something gay guys last year if my Instagram/Twitter feed is to be believed.

 

[Leseratte]

I can't speak for all of North America but in the US the reality is... (drumroll) American Psycho is now being sold in Target, a retail/grocery store. I'm still a little surprised everytime I roll past the book section and see it.

I bought my first book by Clarice Lispector at a Supermarket. I then wanted to give it back, because it started in the middle of the paraph and I thought one part was missing.

 

[Benny Profane]

Bernard Pivot, French journalist and interviewer, who popularized Literature by his television Program called Apostrophes passed away today:

Bernard Pivot, journaliste, créateur d’« Apostrophes », est mort

La célèbre émission littéraire, qu’il anima de 1975 à 1990 sur Antenne 2, était devenue le rendez-vous incontournable des auteurs et du monde de l’édition. L’ex-président de l’Académie Goncourt avait, en plus des livres, deux passions : le vin et le football. Bernard Pivot est mort lundi à...

www.lemonde.fr

 

[tiganeasca]

I can't speak for all of North America but in the US the reality is... (drumroll) American Psycho is now being sold in Target, a retail/grocery store. I'm still a little surprised everytime I roll past the book section and see it.

Also, sticking with the Ellis train his latest novel The Shards (which is excellent by the way) seemed to be the read of hip, twenty-something gay guys last year if my Instagram/Twitter feed is to be believed.

Haven't read much Bret Easton Ellis, but in my world, the Republican Party is about to nominate an American Pyscho for President.

 

[Liam]

^I wouldn't put it past them, they've done it once before already,

 

[dc007777]

Haven't read much Bret Easton Ellis, but in my world, the Republican Party is about to nominate an American Pyscho for President.

Weirdly enough, the first time I read American Psycho was during the 2016 primary, and it was...surreal because the specter of Donald Trump is all over American Psycho. Patrick Bateman loves Trump and namechecks him numerous times.

 

[Liam]

^I thought he even made a cameo appearance in the film, but nope, I was confused. He definitely DOES make an appearance in Sex and the City, back in 1998, and he's wearing the same old oversized red tie!

 

[Verkhovensky]

He helped Kevin find the hotel lobby in the classic that is Home Alone 2: Alone in New York.