Word: asahina
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...1/2-page interview prepared for reviewers and booksellers by the author and his editor Robert Asahina attempts to explain Ellis' intent and confront the inevitable controversy. "I don't think it's a novelist's job to give little moral lessons," says Ellis. But making moral judgments is precisely what he does, not only in the novel, with its hateful portrayals of Manhattan yuppies as mindless consumers, but elsewhere in the muddled handout that is intended to clarify his aesthetic. "The characters in all my novels are superficial," he writes. "They don't understand what's really going on in their...
...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...
...pack, has a novel due out next February that is already causing controversy. Staff members at Simon & Schuster who have read the manuscript, titled American Psycho, say it chronicles a young Wall Street banker who is involved in sexual perversities, murders, mutilations and diverse other grotesqueries and degradations. Robert Asahina, Ellis' editor, allows, "It is a book that can be at times upsetting to read." Some are so upset that they have balked at working on the novel. But Ellis has his defenders, one of whom calls the work, a tad redundantly, a bete noire Bonfire of the Vanities...