Books

July, 1991

Now that the dust storm of the manufactured controversy over Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho (Vintage) has settled, what have we learned? Let's review the situation: Brat-pack novelist with sagging sales pens sicko shocker about a Yuppie serial murderer; Richard Snyder, president of Simon & Schuster, exercises good editorial judgment in deciding not to publish it; Sonny Mehta, president of Vintage, exercises good business judgment in deciding to publish it; the Los Angeles chapter of NOW anno...

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