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courtesy of cookdandbombd, forum participant (Verbwhore) Bobby Onion, we have this lovely interview of Mr. Morris with Mr. Brett Easton Ellis


MORRIS: Who says Americans can’t write books? Well, my school teacher for one did but she was wrong and she’s dead now, and as if to dance on her grave this American is all book. His name is Brett Easton-Ellis, he’s from New York. Now I want you to imagine a book over 6 feet tall, it looks like a man, then imagine that book takes you aside throws open its arms and sprays words all over your face. It makes you laugh, it makes you cringe with raw satire like guts. Is all this chop around and slash routine just a big love me thing?
BRETT EASTON-ELLIS: No not at all. The book…
M: Could be that insistent brandishing of your chopper in our face saying love me, love my chopper, I’m slashing all over the place…
B: Well yeah, what I’m motivated by as a writer is, erm, or as a satirist are things in society that annoy me.
M: This is a kinda anger thing? You know, you’re running around and inside your head your as mad as a one inch hospital and you’ve got to get it out somewhere.
B: I erm,…
M: You look at something like in your new book ‘Models’ and they make you feel as mad as a crab on telly
B: Yeah, that’s true and I think it’s so… What this book is about is basically what all my books are about, erm, the warning inherent in all of them is “Hey, you know, don’t be an idiot!”
M: You did say that it is a kind of revenge. You said that tyranny of fashion has become so inescapable, we’re all trapped. Now when I read that it brought a lump to my throat because it’s an inescapable truth. And then I just wanted to crawl away and have tea in a zoo surrounded by creatures you know vanity…
B: That’s a fair… I would say that that is fair description of the book.
M: Right.
B: It’s a fair assessment.
M: I think in an interview quite recently you said that “life is scary”. What do think is scary?
B: Not being able to trust someone, that’s very scary.
M: Umm. I think it’s much scarier.
B: Yeah.
M: Yeah. What about governments standing around with their arms folded and nodding?
B: Scary.
M: Now, you’ve stuck with the old chapter format thing. Why was that?
B: Well, what do you mean? What, in terms of going backwards?
M: Well, in terms of sub-dividing the book into separate chapters.
B: Erm, well, you know what? That’s something I can’t really explain or verbalise. I know when I begin writting a book and I plan the book for quite a long time and I know quite a lot of things that are going to happen in the book, one of them this time out was, is the way the chapters are were spaced out.
M: Do you know haw many chapters there are gonna be?
B: I have a pretty clear idea, yes I do.
M: It does expose you to the accusation that it is all chapter - no book.
B: Erm…
M: Where’re you gonna go with chapter thing?
B: It… erm….
M: Right, I want to ask you one thing. I found this on the back page of your book. Can we talk typeface?
B: Yeah, I don’t know what that is. I don’t know what, what…
M: It’s the type face, it’s how the words are rendered.
B: Right.
M: Yep, so it’s like Korea, I suppose, or Geneva, that sort of thing except this one.. Electra.
B: Ah.
M: Whose idea was it to use a typeface at all?
B: I think it’s the books designer.
M: When you read the Galley proofs do you ever sort of go, erm, (slurping sound) Ohhh, let’s not have a typeface?
B: Yes.
M: And you have the power?
B: I think sometimes you might..
M: To say print that book but I don’t want you to use any typeface at all.
B: Right.


"Hey, you know, don't be an idiot!"

::worships Morris::

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