Bret Easton Ellis on Lunar Park

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After a seven-year absence, Ellis dares gossip-rag column space with Lunar Park, his first book cast in the past tense, a multi-genre thriller starring a middle-aged, drugged, neurotic, lecherous, and lonesome author named Bret Easton Ellis. The character teaches creative writing part-time while outlining a "pornographic thriller," Teenage Pu ssy, which tells the tale of a Kundera-savvy Don Juan seduced by a 16-year-old's bedroom innocence (and pliability). Scribes adrift in self-made fictional worlds aren't new (see Dante, J.S. Foer), but with Ellis, the authorial intrusion might give some reason to open the book instead of going by secondhand analysis.
 
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