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Lunar Park is about a novelist named, not coincidentally, Bret Easton Ellis. The fictional Bret has written the same novels the real one has. The fictional Bret cavorts with celebrities ("Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Ringwald, John McEnroe, Ronald Reagan Jr. ..."), has numerous affairs with both sexes and is perpetually strung out on coke, tequila, heroin, cosmopolitans and crystal meth. He even has a novelist pal named Jay McInerney. (According to Ellis, McInerney was not thrilled with his cameo appearance. "Really, out of all the s_____ things that have been written about him, this is the lowest? I guess...
...part-time smuggler and full-time freebooter. But he is more observer--mainly of himself--than active participant in the life around him. Two-thirds of the book drifts by before he gets into action--a typhoon, a hijacking at sea. David Thomson, the film historian and occasional novelist, edited the manuscript and supplies (from Cammell's notes) a last chapter, in which Annie finally beds a piratical dragon lady after whom he has long lusted. Their encounter, which involves foreign objects and upturned bums, may strike some readers as less than delectable. And only borderline rompish...
...Tahiti, books were slow to take hold in an oral society. In the early 1970s, when he returned to Apia to teach, Wendt concluded: "Samoa has no need of writers. It is waiting for tourists." But the writer persevered - and became one of the Pacific's best-known novelists. Wendt's 2003 epic The Mango's Kiss dramatizes the encounter between a village girl, Pele, loosely based on Wendt's grandmother, and a Scottish novelist called Leonard Roland Stenson. Is he a sympathetic character? "Hell, yes," says Wendt. "In the novel, he leaves his library of books to the young...
...extent that she does. I?m very lucky that most of my time is absolutely my own. The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. You can drift around and go and work at a coffee shop if you like. But occasionally, things get very hectic when I?m having to do promotions and do interviews and go traveling and that kind of thing. And I have two children, and another on the way. All boys...
...eternal laws of the genre that every fictional serial killer must have a grisly idiosyncrasy. Even Cormac McCarthy, a novelist to whose name the phrase "American master" frequently attaches itself, must bow to this rule. Thus Chigurh, the coldly philosophical fiend of No Country for Old Men (Knopf; 309 pages), McCarthy's first book in seven years, carries a signature weapon, a handheld pneumatic stun gun of the kind used on cattle in slaughterhouses. And it's not just distinctive! It baffles investigators, and it's handy for breaking locks. It's like a Swiss Army knife for psychos...