so am i the only one counting down the days until the new Bret Easton Ellis book comes out?

what would patrick bateman do?

it appears to be one of those books where the author is the main character. ie it is about "bret easton ellis."

does it look like that, first glance?

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and yes, im very interested

so its about aging preppies doing coke on the moon?

"Imperial Bedrooms" is out very soon. Anyone else care? I do.

Have you read the first chapter here?:
http://www.esquire.com/fiction/bret-easton-ellis-imperial-bedrooms-excerpt-0610

I have the feeling it is going to be like LOST season 6. (even begins in LA X)

I care, and have been sent an advance copy, which I can't crack until I file on a deadline.

I care too, I enjoyed the Vanity Fair interview and rebought LTZ today for a re-read.

Is this another Lunar Park-style meta novel?

A sequel to Less Than Zero no less.

I'm not sure how meta it's supposed to be -- I get the feeling from the first chapter that a character who isn't Bret Easton Ellis (and appears in Less Than Zero) had written a Less Than Zero-ish book that they made a movie of, but I'm not sure which character that is.

IIRC most of the major characters from LTZ are featured in it. Clay is now a screenwriter I think, much like BEE is now.

I'm thinking the character that stands in for BEE is Daniel or Trent. Maybe this was always the case?

i actually cant wait for this i really should read lunar park tho

http://media.avclub.com/images/media/book/1914/Imperial-Bedrooms_jpg_150x1000_upscale_q85.jpg

The kids need education
And the streets are never clean
I've seen a certain disposition, prevailing in the wind,
Sweet change if anybody's listening?
Emergency on Planet Earth
Is that life that I am witnessing
Or just another wasted birth

We got emergency
Emergency on Planet Earth

Think we're standing for injustice
White gets two and black gets five years,
Took me quite a while to suss this,
But now I know my head is cleared
And a little boy in hungry land, is just a picture in the news,
Change shoes
Won't see him in the TV advertising,
Cause it might put you off your food

We got emergency
Emergency on Planet Earth

Got my hard copy, still embargoed by other deadlines.

He's gay??

And he also did drugs.

*spoiler*

Dude's bi. Thought the whole world knew it.

No, I only found out by reading last Sunday's Los Angeles Times. The drugs thing I had a little hunch about. I don't consider writing a very honourable pursuit so I don't pay attention to writers much,.

I mean what I'm saying is that they aren't important

Yeah, also, the whole world that knew about it didn't really give a toss.

I don't consider writing a very honourable pursuit so I don't pay attention to writers much,.

As opposed to, what, fox hunting?

happyness

just finished imperial bedrooms -- it's very short and linear. I get the sense that it is in the same universe as less than zero and the book that represents 'less than zero' which a movie was made out of their lives with was a different book/movie altogether, but the writer of that book can't be twitter BEE because he didn't go to the fictional college mentioned. Maybe it is Lunar Park BEE that wrote it?

This long interview/conversation is pretty interesting.

I just read Imperial Bedrooms. Enjoyed a lot of it. Much less ambiguous in its plotting than I expected. The section that Ellis describes as the most controversial with his editor is also the one that took me out of the book for a bit, kind of like "Mother" on Synchronicity.

Also interested in how he actively resists being identified as a gay writer, much like a pop singer (more than a novelist) not wanting to get pigeonholed.