B.E-E. Cancelled

from The Independent UK Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Being cancelled has endeared me to part of the population’ After his recent collection of essays stirred controversy, the author has written the script for a slasher horror movie. He tells Ed Cumming why today’s social media...

B.E.E. Serial

from MovieMaker Bret Easton Ellis Serializes New High School Serial Killer Story — on His Podcast by Tim Molloy For the last six episodes of his podcast, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has held readers rapt with an early 1980s story of Los Angeles...

Gone With The Cold-eyed Realism

from The New Criterion Knights & their ladies fair On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. by Bruce Bawer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wNc86LpidM Just after the opening credits of Gone with the Wind and before the start of the film...

Wells and Shaw and The Fabians

from The New York Times H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw Fight Over Socialism In his latest installment of The Literati, Edward Sorel illustrates the epic battle for control of the Fabian Society, an elite group of socialists, at the turn of the last century....

How The Plague Begat The Essay

from The New York Times Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay. By Robert Zaretsky In the summer of 1585, the mayor of Bordeaux learned, from the comfort of his nearby chateau, that the...

LKJ Wins PEN Pinter Prize

from Brixton Blog Top literature prize for Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded this year’s PEN Pinter Prize. Judges praised his work, saying: “Few post-war figures have been as unwaveringly committed to political...