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- <text id=90TT3184>
- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: A Lady Killer
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 103
- A Lady Killer
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- <body>
- <p>By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Georgia Harbison
- </p>
- <p> American Psycho is just a little misogynistic. O.K., it's
- very misogynistic. All right, all right, there's no way we can
- publish this! Not exactly a rave reaction to the new novel by
- Bret Easton Ellis, 26, author of the best-selling Less Than
- Zero (1985). The book was due out in January, but no longer.
- Bowing to a backlash from the media and its own employees,
- Simon & Schuster last week canceled American Psycho, deeming
- it "not a book [we are] willing to publish." The book's main
- character spends much of his time slashing through women with
- techniques that would make even Freddy Krueger shudder. Ellis
- expressed shock at the decision, but at week's end Vintage
- Books decided to publish the novel in paperback. Even so, Ellis
- will keep his S&S advance, a reported $300,000.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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