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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Roger Avary is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known for co-writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, he shared the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Avary made his feature-directing debut with the 1994 crime thriller Killing Zoe. He later directed Mr. Stitch, adapted Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction, and returned to the crime genre with Lucky Day. His screenwriting credits also include the horror hit Silent Hill and Robert Zemeckis's animated epic Beowulf. Additionally, he is the founder of Pulp Time, a social movie platform for always-on programming and interactive public and private watch parties. Currently, Avary is set to write and direct a feature adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost with Ex Machina Studios, set to release in 2027.  Projects Beowulf Pulp Fiction  Video Archives Podcast ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Anthropic ⁠https://Claude.com/tetra⁠ ------ AGZ ⁠https://DrinkAG1.com/tetra⁠ ------ LMNT Electrolytes ⁠https://DrinkLMNT.com/tetra⁠ Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace ⁠https://Squarespace.com/tetra⁠ Use code 'TETRA' ------ Lectio 365 ⁠https://Lectio365.com⁠ ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions ⁠https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

Poured Over
Addie E. Citchens on DOMINION

Poured Over

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2026 49:27


Dominion by Addie E. Citchens explores the clash of small-town secrets, unspoken rules and family drama in a Mississippi church community.  Addie joins us to talk about Faulkner, self-belief, and reading Harlequin novels in church with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Dominion by Addie E. Citchens As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Sula by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Just Between Us
Best Gabe Ever: Surgery At Bret Easton Ellis' Christmas Party with DJ Mausner

Just Between Us

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2026 57:02 Transcription Available


Comedian, writer and reformed judgmental person DJ Mausner joins Gabe to have a very nuanced and interesting conversation about religion and queerness. (Really enjoyed by me, Gabe!) Then, they react to a woman who wants to attend the funeral of the woman she bullied. How can her mom stop her from going? A woman wants to ban her roommate from charging his EV at the house after he almost burns down the house. In r/antiwork we meet a boss who is in AI psychosis because of Claude. Gabe reveals why he took a Waymo.Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comOur Sponsors:* Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Screen Show
THE COUCH: serial killer thriller The Shards and DC drama Lanterns

The Screen Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2026 15:00


Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma are back to tell you what to watch on streaming this week...from Netflix's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards, a glossy 80's L.A. serial killer thriller, to the latest (very good) offering from the DC Universe, Lanterns.

The Screen Show
THE COUCH: serial killer thriller The Shards and DC drama Lanterns

The Screen Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2026 15:00


Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma are back to tell you what to watch on streaming this week...from Netflix's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards, a glossy 80's L.A. serial killer thriller, to the latest (very good) offering from the DC Universe, Lanterns.

The Watch
Is ‘Lanterns' the End of Superhero TV? Plus, ‘Furious' E5 and the ‘Lioness' S3 Premiere.

The Watch

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2026 79:06


Chris and Andy preview the forthcoming DCU show ‘Lanterns.' They talk about the long road to getting the show made and how fewer and fewer superhero TV shows are actually making it to our screens (4:07). Along the way, they react to the first two episodes of ‘The Shards,' an FX adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel (25:48). Later they discuss ‘Furious' Episode 5 (44:17), then wrap the show with The Watch: After Dark (a.k.a. CR's thoughts on ‘Lioness' Season 3) (01:00:45). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Studio Production: Sarah Reddy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In VOGUE: The 1990s
Behind Chloe Malle's First September Issue

In VOGUE: The 1990s

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2026 45:44


It's that time of year again—the September issue is back and this year is Chloe's first September issue as Head of Editorial Content at American Vogue. Fifteen years ago, before she interviewed at Vogue, she watched the 2009 The September Issue documentary to prepare herself for what was to come. Now it's her moment to be at the helm of the issue celebrating “the January of fashion.” Co-host Nicole Phelps and Vogue's Director of the Global Fashion Network, Virginia Smith joined Chloe to talk about their favorite stories from the issue and the behind the scenes mania of the elaborate photoshoots. They began by discussing the cover shoot photographed by the inimitable Steven Meisel starring Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, two of the leads from Ryan Murphy's adaptation of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. This cover, featuring the young starlets in beautiful Chanel, calls back to the 1992 cover shoot of their parents Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere, shot by Herb Ritts. As far as the fashion message being conveyed in the shoot, Virginia explained, “We kept talking about this idea of designers looking back at the past to reinvent their future, and that tied in with the whole nepo-baby thing, and certainly made sense for our cover stars.” In her Editor's Letter at the front of the book, Chloe spoke about connecting with the cover stars over their shared experience of having famous parents and her embrace of the “nepo-baby” label. Homer, in particular, is new to the limelight and Chloe called him up. "Look, as someone with famous parents, you can run away from it, but that's not gonna work,” she told him, “And you should be proud of your parents. I'm proud of my parents—they've certainly made me who I am.” Nicole then spoke about Nathan Heller's deep dive with Demna. “[Demna] accomplished so much at Balenciaga and I think that has given him an assurance that he can take on this new challenge of Gucci. And he's really leading with fun.” The story includes a portrait of Demna, which was shot just days after the flashy Times Square resort show. Anna politely, but pointedly insisted that he not show up in all black, and he obeyed her wishes, showing up in a white t-shirt. They also noted a few other standout stories including Gaby Wood's profile of Marta Ortega, who has been responsible for leading Zara into the future over the past few years, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin's maximalist train car shoot featuring the West End's favorite actors, Mattie Kahn's profile of conductor Gustavo Dudamel, and Adrienne Miller's conversation with Julia Louis Dreyfus about her upcoming Broadway debut. Also on today's episode, Chloe and Chioma caught up after Chloe's family trip to France. They discuss Chioma's latest Nicole Kidman cover shot by Venetia Scott and written by Giles Hattersley. “She's just got such presence,” Chioma noted, recalling a starstruck moment she had while greeting her at the Met Gala, “this kind of quiet, sphinx-like presence.” They also chat about the book club pick and Chioma's upcoming travels to Switzerland and Greece! The Run-Through with Vogue is your go-to podcast where fashion meets culture. Hosted by Chloe Malle, Head of Editorial Content, Vogue U.S.; Chioma Nnadi, Head of British Vogue; and Nicole Phelps, Director of Vogue Runway, each episode features the latest fashion news and exclusive designer and celebrity interviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Previously On Teen TV
The Shards Episodes 1 and 2 Recap + Reactions | It's camp!

Previously On Teen TV

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2026 60:46


Ryan Murphy's The Shards is here, and apparently senior year in 1980s Los Angeles involves drugs, secrets, questionable hairstyles, mysterious new students, cults, serial killers, and absolutely no reliable narrators.Jillian is joined by her husband Tyler to break down Episodes 1 and 2 of The Shards, based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel. We break down Bret's growing obsession with mysterious new student Robert Mallory, whether Robert really was at that screening of The Shining, Matt's disappearance, and the increasingly disturbing threat of The Trawler.Plus, we get into the gloriously over-the-top '80s vibe of it all, debate who could actually be behind the murders, and rank our Top 5 “Now That's What I Call Camp!” moments that includes Debbie's completely unhinged parents, Susan Reynolds doing the most as student body president, and Bret rewriting his own reality in real time.And, of course, Tyler has plenty of Takes on spooky vans, aquariums, 26-year-olds playing high schoolers, and a homecoming party at the Beverly Hills Hotel.00:00:00 Reenactment - Bret-Robert-The Shining00:01:34 Intro to pod00:04:02 Behind the scenes00:19:14 Recap Episode 100:22:55 Recap Episode 200:26:28 Top 5 Camp00:27:53 Terry and Steven00:31:35 Debbie's mom Liz00:33:46 The Trawler00:37:51 Susan Reynolds00:41:20 Bret Easton Ellis00:47:48 Whodunit00:50:57 Tyler's TakesThank you to Matt Buechele (@mattbooshell) for creating our new theme song. You can listen to "Sunscreen" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1gFHHF3QyQxjbbKXV3qLu9Buy our merch: ⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/PreviouslyOnTeenTV⁠Follow Previously On Teen TV on Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/previouslyon_teentv/Follow Previously On Teen TV on TikTok: ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@previouslyon_teentv⁠⁠Subscribe to our YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe2lgvvZGKMrQ8v24FmDdWQ?sub_confirmation=1⁠

In VOGUE: The 1990s
Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere Are Vogue's September Cover Stars!

In VOGUE: The 1990s

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 57:08


Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere are Vogue's September cover stars! They had the glow of two people running on adrenaline and very little sleep when they joined The Run-Through for their first joint interview just ahead of The Shards premier day. The two stars of Ryan Murphy's new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's book were candid, funny, and clearly delighted to be doing press together for the first time. Asked for her elevator pitch, Gerber, a Ryan Murphy veteran who counts herself among Ellis's biggest fans, called the show a "seductive drama thriller" following privileged teenagers at an elite 1981 Los Angeles prep school as they collide with obsession, identity, and violence. Gere, for whom this was his first-ever podcast interview, offered a punchier synopsis: Euphoria, he said, "if it was in the '80s and was also a horror and was also Glee."  Much of the conversation turned, fittingly, to what makes Ellis's work so unsettling in the first place. For Gerber, the answer lies not in the show's more graphic moments but in the eerie flatness with which her character and the rest of the cast greet even the most traumatic events. "A lot of the horror comes from the lack of reaction to the horror," she explained. Gere agreed, describing it as less shock than slow-building dread. The two also traced the emotional throughline back to their September cover shoot, photographed by Steven Meisel. It was another first for Gere, though Gerber has worked with the photographer since she was thirteen. Watching him find his footing on set, she said, felt like he'd "been doing this since you were 13." Gere and Gerber had the intimate, inside-joke energy of two people who've spent the better part of a year together on set. There was the cast's six-person group chat, unfortunately nicknamed "The Sharts"; Gere's failed attempt to sneak home a pair of the show's leather pants, which he wore, by his own count, for six months straight, and the very sweet wrap gift that Gere chose for Gerber. Check out vogue.com for the cover story and photo shoot! The Run-Through with Vogue is your go-to podcast where fashion meets culture. Hosted by Chloe Malle, Head of Editorial Content, Vogue U.S.; Chioma Nnadi, Head of British Vogue; and Nicole Phelps, Director of Vogue Runway, each episode features the latest fashion news and exclusive designer and celebrity interviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Críticos en Serio
#35 [SERIES] — The Shards [Disney+] — la ¿nueva? serie de Ryan Murphy

Críticos en Serio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 23:40


Esta semana analizamos el estreno de The Shards, la nueva serie de Ryan Murphy para Disney+ que adapta la novela de Bret Easton Ellis. Exploramos si esta ficción sobre adolescentes en el Los Ángeles de los 80 logra mantener el tono oscuro del material original o si se pierde en las manías habituales del creador, entre nepo babies, bandas sonoras impecables y una voz en off que no deja indiferente a nadie. Además, repasamos vuestros comentarios sobre Ciclos, Silo y otras series que nos habéis recomendado en la comunidad. Todo ello, como siempre, sin spoilers. Únete a nuestro grupo de Telegram: https://t.me/PodcastEnSerio Y estamos en Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastEnSerio ⌨️Correo: ivodelgadorivero@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticoenserio/?hl=en-gb

Toucher & Rich
Fred's Latest Movie and TV Rating's, Hardy is Living the Life| What Happened Last Night | Red Sox Lose, Why Won't Aaron Rodgers just Retire? - 8/10 (Hour 1) 

Toucher & Rich

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2026 43:21


(00:00) Happy Monday! Fred saw the new Spiderman movie and he actually thought it was good. Fred has also been watching a new series on Hulu called The Shards, based on the book Bret Easton Ellis. Turns out the show is pretty different from the book, shocker. Wouldn't it be nice to just chew on a leaf? Hardy had to remove rabbit guts from his yard last night so his dog wouldn't get into it. (00:20:02.45)(00:33:55.93) WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT: The Red Sox have now lost two in a row to the A's after falling short to them 4-3. Mike Tomlin helped Aaron Rodgers get his spark back and was close to retiring when Tomlin got fired, but stayed because he had to have a full circle moment with Mike McCarthy. Please note: Timecodes may shift by a few minutes due to inserted ads. Because of copyright restrictions, portions—or entire segments—may not be included in the podcast.CONNECT WITH TOUCHER & HARDY: linktr.ee/ToucherandHardyFor the latest updates, visit the show page on 985thesportshub.com. Follow 98.5 The Sports Hub on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Watch the show every morning on YouTube, and subscribe to stay up-to-date with all the best moments from Boston's home for sports!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Must Watch
Hit Point | The Shards | The Westies

Must Watch

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2026 47:18


Emma Vardy stands in for Naga Munchetty on Must Watch this week. She's joined by Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell to review the week's biggest new TV and streaming releases.This week the trio reviewed 'Hit Point' a six-part series on U&Dave and from the creators of Misfits. The series starts when three men in animal masks intercept a Range Rover carrying ten million pounds in cash and detectives Bella and Leo are called to investigate. It premiers on the 13th of August and stars Peter Serafinowicz, William Abadie and Nick Blood. Next, 'The Shards' a nine-part teen drama on Disney+, based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Ryan Murphy. It follows Bret (Igby Rigney) a student in his final year of high school in 1981 in Los Angeles who becomes obsessed new student Robert Mallary (Homer Gere), at the same time as a serial killer rips through the local community. Finally, 'The Westies' an eight-part drama about the real-life 1980s Irish-American gang The Westies, who partnered with the Italian-American mafia in Manhattan. It features JK Simmons as the Irish gang leader, Eamon Sweeney.Remember you can email mustwatch@bbc.co.uk to have your say.

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast
269. The Nihilistic Glamour of '80s LA

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2026 83:34


Nancy and Sarah discuss the Hulu/FX series The Shards, the new Bret Easton Ellis and Ryan Murphy jam. The 1981 LA vibes are right in Sarah's sweet spot (Bonne Bell! Xanadu! The Go-Gos!). For Nancy, not so much, maybe because she lived it. They talk ennui and heroin overdoses and young people trying to prove nothing matters. Then it's onto the recent shocking Perez Hilton livestream. Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face, in this case (all cases?), tragically.Also discussed:* Nightie Day!* “My mom's poochie.”* Studio 54 days * Rich Angeleno kids = meh* Smoke ‘Em: Banned in Belarus!* Sarah doesn't read Nancy's existing books but asks her to write others* Wes Bentley's eyebrows * Rich kid names (Homer, Igby, Kaia)* “Touch it!”* Who IS Perez Hilton?* Attention monsters of the Internet* Women with long and thick silver hair, swoonPlus, This Week in Kyle Chandler, a dystopic LA short story from Nancy (NB: which was just too gd long to post; it's “X-Girl” in the collection), and much more!Attention please: Send us your letters! Subscribe to the YouTube. Buy Sarah's book! Sign up for Sarah's Substack LOVE ANYWAY. Do something.This one's a freebie - go ahead and subscribe!Nancy tells the story of a destroyed Jamie Slovak showing up in her yard at 6am on a June morning in 1988. His brother Hillel, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, had just overdosed, and Jamie, who spent a lot of time at Nancy's West Hollywood house those days, needed comfort. Nancy has not seen Jamie in decades and was glad to learn just now that he is involved in this doc, which came out earlier this year.Episode Notes: “‘The Shards' Soundtrack Is Incredible – Here's Every Song From The First Two Episodes” (Elle/Yahoo)“Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for FX's Predictably Excess-Soaked Tale of Prep-School Sex, Drugs and Murder” (Hollywood Reporter)The Bad Mother: A Novel, by Nancy Rommelmann“Perez Hilton ‘Will Require Surgery' After Live Stream Incident, Family Demands Media ‘Cease Photographing Perez's Children'” (Variety)Official Family Statement on PerezHilton.comThis Week in Kyle Chandler: What's in your hot box?Nancy: Nike Training Club appSarah: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit smokeempodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Streamgestöber
Check: Ist The Shards von Ryan Murphy so gut wie das Buch?

Streamgestöber

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2026 18:47


Moviepilot-Redakteur Patrick Reinbott ist ein großer Fan von Autor Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho). Entsprechend gespannt war er auf Ryan Murphys neue Serie The Shards, die den gleichnamigen autobiografischen Teenie-Thriller-Roman bei Disney+ adaptiert. Patrick hat alle Folgen gesehen und verrät, wie viel Ryan Murphy – und v.a. wie viel Bret Easton Ellis – wirklich in der Serie steckt. *** Dieser Podcast wird gesponsert von MagentaTV – dem TV- und Streaming-Angebot der Telekom. Abonniere und bewerte Streamgestöber bei der Podcast-App deines Vertrauens! Wenn du mit deiner Meinung im Podcast landen willst, schick uns eine Sprachnachricht oder einen Kommentar per Mail an podcast@moviepilot.de.

Serienweise
Neues von "Ted Lasso", "The Shards" und "Ride or Die"

Serienweise

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2026 74:35


Believe! Das Mantra von "Ted Lasso" (51:11) ist in den letzten Jahren auch zum Mantra der Fans geworden, die nach dem Ende der Serie nie die Hoffnung aufgegeben haben, dass es doch noch weitergehen könnte. Jetzt ist es tatsächlich so weit, und Apple TV holt Jason Sudeikis zurück auf die Trainerbank – jetzt aber für das neue Damenteam des AFC Richmond. Können Beard und Ted die Damen an die Spitze führen? Und vor allen Dingen: Können sie den Abwärtstrend der Serie stoppen, die als Phänomen begann und sich danach auf den Lorbeeren ausruhte? Holger und Rüdiger haben die ersten Folgen gescoutet und eine Spielanalyse gemacht. Für die anderen beiden Serien kommt dann auch noch Roland von der Reservebank und spricht über "The Shards" (4:30) bei Disney+. Da hinter der Serie Ryan Murphy und Bret Easton Ellis stecken, ist eine Kontroverse vorprogrammiert, nicht nur inhaltlich, sondern auch bei unserer Einschätzung der Serie. Ähnlich weit auseinander klafft die Meinung bei der Amazon-Serie "Ride or Die" (31:30), die sich viele von Euch gewünscht haben und deren Besprechung nur haarscharf an einem weiteren "Cat's Eyes"-Fiasko vorbeischrammt. Cold-Open-Frage: "Über welche Serie außer ,Gilmore Girls' hätten wir gerne eine Doku?"

The Spill
The Tom Cruise Story We've Been Trained To Forget & An Infamous Hollywood Romance Has Resurfaced

The Spill

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2026 38:11 Transcription Available


Tom Cruise's daughter has quietly cut the cord, and she didn't need a headline to do it. We're unpacking how Suri chose a very pointed new surname, where eagle-eyed fans found the proof, and why this feels like the loudest silent statement in Hollywood.Then, one of the buzziest new shows has pulled off a casting move so cheeky it's basically a dare. Two of its young stars share a very tangled family history, because their parents were once one of Hollywood's great fairytale romances — and reporters on the red carpet made them squirm over it.Plus, a fresh first look at a bold new take on an icon, with two very different actresses stepping into the same legendary shoes.TAKE THE SPILL QUIZ HERETHE END BITS Find and follow us on socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespillpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thespillpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thespillpodcast/ Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia: https://mamamia.com.au/entertainment/Support Independent Women’s Media. Your subscription helps us continue to tell the stories that matter to women. The Out Loud hosts have handpicked their all-time favourite reads and one subscriber is winning the entire 12-book stack. Subscribe to Mamamia here to be automatically entered to win. Current subscriber? You're already in the draw. T&Cs apply.Get access to Very Peri, Mamamia's exclusive perimenopause series, for just $59. 25 world-leading experts, over 20 on-demand sessions, available now. We’ve sorted through the noise so you don't have to. Go to veryperi.com.au and join me today. You hot? Same. Buy today and save 40% Want to join the conversation? Have feedback or a topic you want us to discuss? Send us a voice message or email us at thespill@mamamia.com.au and we’ll get back to you ASAP! Executive Producer: Monisha Iswaran Audio & Video Producer: Michael Kean Mamamia acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we have recorded this podcast.Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Watch
The Best Shows of the Year (So Far)

The Watch

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2026 85:23


Chris and Andy talk about the trailers for Tony Gilroy's ‘Behemoth!' (10:51) and Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel ‘The Shards' (16:26). Then they reveal their favorite shows of the year so far, including everything from ‘Industry' and ‘The Pitt' to ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' and ‘Beef,' and they reflect on the year in television up until this point (20:09). Later, The Watch: After Dark (0:00). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Studio Production: Sarah Reddy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

how to win the lottery: a book club podcast
american psycho by bret easton ellis

how to win the lottery: a book club podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2026 73:27


we're talking about american psycho by bret easton ellis. given that it's almost the 4th of july, we're also talking about american opulence, the connective tissue between this and the great gatsby, and the paradox of american exceptionalism. we discuss what happens when patrick bateman interacts with people outside his circle, the purposeful lack of a memorable ending, and the timothy price “fakeout.” shreds talks about what ellis's writing means to him (and its inclusion in the pre-podcast module) and reads the novel's manifesto (if such a thing exists). we praise the successful film adaptation (and note where it falls short), talk about how bateman's nihilism ultimately wins out, and discuss the possibility of whether patrick bateman is gay. we also talk about sean bateman, alison poole, and the intertextuality on display in american psycho. how much of this book actually happened? what's up with the patty winters show? do people consider this a great american novel?

Little Atoms
Little Atoms Archive - Bret Easton Ellis' the Shards

Little Atoms

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2026 31:00


First broadcast in January 2023, Bret Easton Ellis talks to Neil about his novel The Shards. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pijas Marrones
Pijas Marrones #271. Lazos ardientes con Charlie G. Fennel y Gregorio M.

Pijas Marrones

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2026 81:42


El podcast perennial de la (re)generación del trigger. Tertulia cultural y sociológica acerca de lo divino y de lo humano de la mano de Popy Blasco. Esta semana charlando animadamente acerca de prom nights, 30 años de Lazos Ardientes, el video de Madonna, Gwyneth sionista, la niña ciega del Papa, Judy Garland, Bret Easton Ellis, las gemelas Olsen cumplen 40, el final de Euphoria, Angels Barceló, David Hockney, Backrooms, Graham Platner, Spielberg y maravillas mil. Emitiendo desde la potentísima señal de Subterfuge Radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serienjunkies Podcast
SJ Weekly: FIFA zocken auf Netflix und Charlie Harper als Trainer?

Serienjunkies Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2026 62:52


Die Fußballweltmeisterschaft in den USA hat begonnen, doch Adam und Hanna haben natürlich nicht nur Fußball geschaut: Ryan Murphy meldet sich im August mit „The Shards“, der Serienadaption des gleichnamigen Bestsellers von Bret Easton Ellis, zurück. „Widow's Bay“ bekommt eine zweite Staffel, „Only Murders in the Building“ dreht in London und hat dafür mehrere Stars aus „Doctor Who“ verpflichtet, während ein legendäres Science-Fiction-Epos vorerst eine Zwangspause einlegen muss.Auch in der Streamingbranche gibt es Bewegung: Fox übernimmt den Plattform-Spezialisten Roku] dessen Geräte in mehr als 80 Millionen US-Haushalten genutzt werden. Beim Seriencamp in Köln wurden die diesjährigen Serienpreise verliehen, und Tom Hanks will keinen Synchron-Oscar vergeben. Außerdem sprechen wir über „Proud“ und die neue Staffel von „The Four Seasons“. Dazu gibt es noch einen Rewatch einer bekannten Fantasyserie und einen Tipp aus dem Bereich Podcast und Comic. Viel Spaß beim Hören! Timestamps0:00:00 FOX schluckt ROKU0:08:30 The Shards 0:11:00 Doctor Who News, The Four Seasons0:16:15 Nagelsmann Outfit, ALF: Sitcom Mutti verstorben0:20:00 Ausstieg bei Mord in Shettland, Sullivan's Crossing und Shoresy geht weiter0:24:00 Tom Hanks will keinen Synchro-Oscar, Widow's Bay 2. Staffel0:28:30 The Walking Dead: Dead City, Social Network Sequel?0:33:30 Seriencamp Köln0:36:50 Backrooms Teaser0:40:00 WM bei Magenta und ein FIFA von Netflix?0:51:00 The Four Seasons, Proud, 0:59:00 NeustartsNeuer SJ Instagram-Kanal:https://www.instagram.com/serienpodcast/Hanna Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mediawhore.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediawhore Adam: Twitter/ X: https://twitter.com/AwesomeArndt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awesomearndt/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AwesomeArndt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Schwebende Bücher
LesBar im Stern-Zimmer - Folge 14

Schwebende Bücher

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2026 99:55


Im März trafen sich wieder Mitarbeiterinnen der Stadtbibliothek Marzahn-Hellersdorf im Stern-Zimmer an der LesBar und redeten über Gelesenes der letzten Wochen. Die Getränke des Abends waren Aperol, Wodka mit Grapefruitsaft und Wasser.Kerstin Morgenstern, Sarah Schütz, Benita Hanke und Renate Zimmermann hatten insgesamt 18 Bücher im Gepäck und labelten sie mit Adjektiven, die auf -bar enden. Denn nichts ist naheliegender, wenn man an einer Bar sitzt, oder? Falls Ihnen Wörter einfallen, die sich eignen, um Bücher zu bewerten, schreiben Sie eine Mail an zimmermannfrau@gmail.com. Wir freuen uns über jede Ergänzung.TITELLISTE:1. min. 00:02:39  Bianca Schaalburg: Der Duft der Kiefern, 2022 (

Demise of the Podcast
Episode 354 - Bret Easton Ellis Retrospective

Demise of the Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2026 59:02


Reading the endings for four books: Less Than Zero, Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and More.

Demise of the Podcast
Episode 353 - Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards Part II

Demise of the Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2026 40:58


Demise of the Podcast
Episode 352 - Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards Part I

Demise of the Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2026 51:47


Edit this, baby.

The Worst of All Possible Worlds
236 - American Psycho (feat. JP Brammer)

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2026 156:49


HEADS UP: TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR OUR MAY 24 LIVE SHOW IN BROOKLYN, EXCLUSIVELY AT PATREON.COM/WORSTOFALL JP Brammer (¡Hola Papi!) and the lads throw on their raincoats, dance to Huey Lewis and the News, and commit some mild homicide as they cover both Bret Easton Ellis' original book and Mary Harron's film adaptation of the trials and tribulations of Patrick Bateman: American Psycho. Topics include Ellis' rage-bait politics, Christian Bale's hardbody, and what it means when a significant portion of a population aspires to be Patrick Bateman. JP Brammer: Substack // Bluesky // Instagram Media referenced in this episode: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Vintage. 1991. American Psycho. Dir. Mary Harron. 2000. “An 'American Psycho' Drama : Books: The flap surrounding Bret Easton Ellis' third novel flares again. NOW is seeking a boycott of his new publisher. Other observers raise questions of censorship.” by Elizabeth Venant. Los Angeles Times. December 11th, 1990. “Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Christian Bale, and His Problem with Women Directors”. Movieline. May 18th, 2010. "Bret Easton Ellis on Talking Porn With Kanye, a New Novel, and (Yes) Trump" by Corey Seymour. Vogue. April 16th, 2019. “On Adapting American Psycho” by Mary Harron. London Review of Books. February 28th, 2024. “Phil Collins webchat – your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice.” The Guardian. October 19th, 2016. Music/audio used in this episode: Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street 緑茶:日本の伝統茶道 - Nhạc Jazz Không Lời Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square Phil Collins - Sussudio Genesis - In Too Deep Genesis - Mama Genesis - That's All Genesis - Home By The Sea LilMati - Air Conditioner Fan Hum.wav jzielke011 - Urban Rain 01.wav TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Interstitial: “Salve & Salve” // Written and Performed by A.J. Ditty

Demise of the Podcast
Episode 351 - Bret Easton Ellis's The Informers

Demise of the Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2026 40:22


Way to rush to The Shards, Bret.

W2M Network
Triple Feature: Swimming with Sharks/Suicide Kings/American Psycho

W2M Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2026 94:36 Transcription Available


Tonight we're examining late-90s American cinema through a single corrosive lens—power as pathology—using Swimming with Sharks (1994), Suicide Kings (1997), and American Psycho (2000). George Huang's indie Hollywood satire, born from his own assistant experience, pairs Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley in a low-budget Sundance breakout that exposed abuse as industry currency. Peter O'Fallon's Suicide Kings, riding the post-Pulp Fiction wave, assembles Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, and a crop of rising young actors in a contained, dialogue-driven crime piece that underperformed theatrically but grew on video. Mary Harron's American Psycho, adapted from Bret Easton Ellis, retooled after multiple development shifts, cast Christian Bale in a career-defining role, and turned modest box office into lasting cultural capital. Together, these films document a moment when masculinity, ambition, and capitalism collapsed into performance, leaving a legacy that still shapes how film portrays power, status, and identity.Disclaimer: The following may contain offensive language, adult humor, and/or content that some viewers may find offensive – The views and opinions expressed by any one speaker does not explicitly or necessarily reflect or represent those of Mark Radulich or W2M Network.Mark Radulich and his wacky podcast on all the things:https://linktr.ee/markkind76alsohttps://www.teepublic.com/user/radulich-in-broadcasting-networkFB Messenger: Mark Radulich LCSWTiktok: @markradulichtwitter: @MarkRadulichInstagram: markkind76RIBN Album Playlist: https://suno.com/playlist/91d704c9-d1ea-45a0-9ffe-5069497bad59 

Austin Danger Podcast
American Psycho (2000)

Austin Danger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2026 97:05


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AIR JORDAN: A FOOD PODCAST
Hollywood's Biggest Night

AIR JORDAN: A FOOD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2026 46:54


Jordan and Max are joined by talent manager to the stars, Michael Lasker, to talk filthy eating and the Oscars, including the In-N-Out awards visit and disrespecting Wolfgang Puck, fast forwarding through the boring parts, Babs Streisand, Tom Cruise news, the best Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, Jordo's Hansen's cake order, Sherman Oaks is no Rome, a McDonald's morning, Sonny's pizza, lots of Oreos, and did Timmy blow it?

FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA
Episode #152 – The Rules of Attraction (2002)

FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2026 125:12


On the show's 152nd episode, Bryan and Preston head back to campus with The Rules of Attraction, the 2002 collegiate fever dream starring the late James Van Der Beek alongside a parade of early-aughts luminaries. Adapted from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, yes, that Bret Easton Ellis, of American Psycho infamy, and directed by Roger Avary, the film follows a semester in the chemically enhanced lives of morally unmoored college students. It plays, at times, like Stanley Kubrick wandered onto the set of Animal House and decided to dim the lights. The post Episode #152 – The Rules of Attraction (2002) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

The Film 89 Podcast
Episode 144: Episode 144 - American Psycho (2000).

The Film 89 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2026 91:07


On Episode 144 of The Film ‘89 Podcast, both Neil and Skye are mistaken for Paul Allen as they discuss director Mary Harron's 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel, American Psycho. Set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of 1989, American Psycho follows the life of a wealthy young investment banker named Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale). Bateman narrates his everyday activities, from his charmed yuppie recreational life of pampering and fine dining among the Wall Street elite of New York to his forays into murder by night. The guys discuss the film's complex plot, one that can have any number of varying interpretations as to both the reliability of the film's narrator and the questions raised as to whether Patrick Bateman is a crazed serial killer or if this is all just an elaborate fantasy concocted as a means of dealing with the banality of the world he lives in. Featuring a superb supporting cast, brilliant direction and a killer soundtrack, American Psycho is arguably more of a bleakly dark satire than it is a serial killer thriller, and is certainly a film more than worthy of the Film '89 treatment.

As the Actress said to the Critic
Bonus episode: The cast of American Psycho let us into the rehearsal room

As the Actress said to the Critic

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2026 35:31


Editor-in-chief Alex Wood is heading back to the 1980s – well, a very specific, very sharp, and very bloody version of them. We're talking about the highly anticipated revival of American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre. Based on the cult-classic novel by Bret Easton Ellis, with a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and a synth-heavy score by Duncan Sheik, this production marks a significant moment for London theatre. It is the final production from Rupert Goold in his tenure as the Almeida's Artistic Director, revisiting the darkly satirical world of Wall Street that he first brought to life on this stage over a decade ago. We chat to Patrick Bateman himself, returning to the Almeida after The Line of Beauty, Arty Froushan, as well as Emily Barber, Zheng Xi Yong, Daniel Bravo, Tanisha Spring and Oli Higginson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Meal of Thorns
A Meal of Thorns 39- THE SECRET HISTORY with Roseanna Pendlebury

A Meal of Thorns

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 85:51


We’re tracking down the wellspring of “dark academia” in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, and plucking on threads that stretch out to current fantasy and science fiction literature, with reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury as our guide. Casella manages to throw some shade at Arrival, somehow, and also references Dumb & Dumber.   Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.   Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury Title: The Secret History Host: Jake Casella Brookins Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson References: Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide E.J. Swift’s When There Are Wolves Again Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker  Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality Simon Roy's Griz Grobus & A Star Called The Sun Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon Tartt’s The Goldfinch Euripides’ The Bacchae Jane Alison's Meander Spiral Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Roger Ebert's review of Roger Avary’s film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction (which, we didn’t get into this in the episode, is sort of in the Expanded Secret History Universe) Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Sofia Samatar's The Practice The Horizon and the Chain R.F. Kuang's Katabasis & Babel Fellman's The Two Doctors Górski Marina & Sergei Dyachenko's Vita Nostra, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey Ceaușescu's bathroom Peter Farrelly’s film Dumb and Dumber Sir Arthur Conan Doyles’ Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" vs. Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival Becky Chamber’s To Be Taught if Fortunate Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch "All art is perfectly useless" C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces Samatar's A Stranger In Olondria and The Winged Histories Fellman's The Breath of the Sun Katherin Addison's The Goblin Emperor & sequels Dungeons & Dragons Roseanna’s Small Press Dispatch series at ARB Roseanna's blog Tolkien's Beowulf & The Tolkien Reader Lina Palera’s Seikilos Epitaph with the Lyre of Apollo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0*   *Note that ARB & AMOT are generally distributed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, but will match the CC of any incorporated material for particular posts/episodes.    

A Meal of Thorns
A Meal of Thorns 39- THE SECRET HISTORY with Roseanna Pendlebury

A Meal of Thorns

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 85:51


We’re tracking down the wellspring of “dark academia” in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, and plucking on threads that stretch out to current fantasy and science fiction literature, with reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury as our guide. Casella manages to throw some shade at Arrival, somehow, and also references Dumb & Dumber.   Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.   Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury Title: The Secret History Host: Jake Casella Brookins Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson References: Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide E.J. Swift’s When There Are Wolves Again Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker  Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality Simon Roy's Griz Grobus & A Star Called The Sun Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon Tartt’s The Goldfinch Euripides’ The Bacchae Jane Alison's Meander Spiral Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Roger Ebert's review of Roger Avary’s film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction (which, we didn’t get into this in the episode, is sort of in the Expanded Secret History Universe) Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Sofia Samatar's The Practice The Horizon and the Chain R.F. Kuang's Katabasis & Babel Fellman's The Two Doctors Górski Marina & Sergei Dyachenko's Vita Nostra, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey Ceaușescu's bathroom Peter Farrelly’s film Dumb and Dumber Sir Arthur Conan Doyles’ Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" vs. Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival Becky Chamber’s To Be Taught if Fortunate Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch "All art is perfectly useless" C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces Samatar's A Stranger In Olondria and The Winged Histories Fellman's The Breath of the Sun Katherin Addison's The Goblin Emperor & sequels Dungeons & Dragons Roseanna’s Small Press Dispatch series at ARB Roseanna's blog Tolkien's Beowulf & The Tolkien Reader Lina Palera’s Seikilos Epitaph with the Lyre of Apollo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0*   *Note that ARB & AMOT are generally distributed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, but will match the CC of any incorporated material for particular posts/episodes.    

This Is Important
Ep 274: Men's Rights Mansplained

This Is Important

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2025 59:36 Transcription Available


Today, this is what's important: Jerking off, Twister, mustaches, Quentin Tarantino, films, musicals, & more. Click here for more information about the This Is Important Cruise Feb 22nd-26th!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile
Episode 147: Our Surreal Reality

Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 31:47


Early winter weather has us pondering an alternate definition of “slush pile,” albeit the mucky, grey residue remaining after a city snowfall. Our Slush Pile is far more fresh, but still a wintry mix as we discuss the short story “Catherine of the Exvangelical Deconstruction” by Candice Kelsey. You might want to jump down the page and read or listen to it in full first, as there are spoilers in our discussion!   The story is set on the day of the Women's March, following 2017's Inauguration Day, but only references those events in the most glancing of ways. Instead the protagonist glances away to an array of distractions: Duolingo, a Frida Kahlo biography, a bat documentary, European architecture, banjo music, a stolen corpse flower, daydreaming, and actual dreaming. In the withholding of the protagonist's interiority, Sam sees a connection to Rachel Cusk's Outline, while Jason is reminded of early Bret Easton Ellis. The editors discuss how fiction might evoke the internet's fractioning of our attention, by recreating the fractioning or reflecting it?   We'd like to offer congratulations to Sam whose debut book of short stories, “Uncertain Times,” just won the Washington Writers Publishing House Fiction Prize. As always, thanks for listening!   At the table: Dagne Forrest, Samantha Neugebauer, Jason Schneiderman, Kathleen Volk Miller, Lisa Zerkle, and Lilllie Volpe (Sound Engineer)   Listen to the story “Catherine of the Exvangelical Deconstruction” read in its entirety by Dagne Forrest (separate from podcast reading) (Bio): Candice M. Kelsey (she/her) is a bi-coastal writer and educator. Her work has received Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominations, and she is the author of eight books. Candice reads for The Los Angeles Review and The Weight Journal; she also serves as a 2025 AWP Poetry Mentor. Her next poetry collection, Another Place Altogether, releases December 1st with Kelsay Books. (Website): https://www.candicemkelseypoet.com/ (Instagram): @Feed_Me_Poetry   Catherine of the Exvangelical Deconstruction Catherine's thumb hovers over Duolingo's question, her mind dim from doom scrolling, chest dead as TikTok. The green owl stares. She swears its beak is twitching.  “Got 5 minutes?”  She swipes Duo, that nosy bastard, and his taunting French flag icon away. “Non.” The apartment is dim, the air too still. Days feel hollow and unhinged, as if she's Edmond Dantès tossed off the cliff of Chatêau d'If, a brief and misplaced shell weighted to the depths of the sea. So much for learning a language to calm the nerves. Frida Kahlo's face stares from the page of a book she hasn't finished reading. “I should just return this already.” There are days she commits to her syllabus of self-education and days she resents it. Kahlo's eyes pierce her, and giving up feels like large-scale feminist betrayal—how she has shelved the artist, her wounds, tragic love, and all. But even sisterhood is too much this January 21st, and of all people, Kahlo would understand. Catherine opens her laptop and starts a documentary about bats instead. Chiroptera. A biologist with kind eyes speaks of their hand-like bones, the elastin and collagenous fiber wings. The chaos of nature is its own magic realism. She learns bats are vulnerable like the rest of us. Climate disruption and habitat loss. Plus white nose syndrome and the old standby, persecution by ignorant humans who set their caves aflame. In the documentary, there is a bat with the liquid amber eyes of a prophet. Maybe that's what this world has had too much of, she begins to consider. Mid-deconstruction of decades in the white, evangelical cesspit of high control patriarchy, Catherine sees the world as one big field day full of stupid ego-competitions like cosmic tug-a-wars. And prophets were some of the top offenders. King Zedekiah, for one, had the prophet Jeremiah lowered into a well by rope, intending he sink into the mud and suffocate. All because he warned the people of their emptiness. Her mind wanders to Prague, to art, to something far away that might fill her own cistern life. “Maybe next summer,” she whispers. “Charles Bridge, St. Vitus.” The rhythm of bluegrass hums through the speakers, enough to anchor her here, in this room, in this thin sliver of a world she cannot escape. “That could be the problem; I need to learn Czech. No, fuck Duo.” J'apprendrai le français. J'irai à Prague. Je verrai les vieux bâtiments. But then, something strange. The banjo's pluck feels different, deeper, its twang splitting the air. She Googles the history of Bluegrass, and the words tumble from the page, layering like the weight of a corpse settling into the silt off the coast of Marseille. The banjo isn't Appalachian in origin but rather West African—specifically from the Senegalese and Gambian people, their fingers strumming the akonting, a skin drum-like instrument that whispered of exile, of worlds ripped apart. American slavers steeped in the bitter twisting of scripture trafficked them across the Middle Passage, yet in the cruel silence of the cotton fields, they turned their pain into music. How are we not talking about this in every history class in every school in every state of this nation? The akonting, an enslaved man's lament, was the seed of a gourd that would bloom into the sounds of flatpicking Southerners. Still, the banjo plays on in Catherine's apartment. A much more tolerable sound than Duolingo's dong-ding ta-dong. But she can't quite cleanse her mind of the French lessons, of Lily and Oscar. Il y a toujours plus. Her voice is barely a whisper, trying to reassure herself. There must be more. A recurring dream, soft and gleaming like a pearl—her hands moving over cool clams, shucking them on a beach house in Rhode Island. It's a faint memory, but no less ever present. Aunt Norma and Uncle Francis' beach cottage and the closest thing to a Hyannis Port Kennedy afternoon of cousins frolicking about by the edge of a long dock lured back by the steam of fritters. But this time, Ocean Vuong stands beside her. He's talking about the monkey, Hartford, the tremors of the world. And the banjo has morphed into Puccini's La Bohème, which laces through the rhythm of Vuong's syntax like a golden libretto. They notice a figure outside the window, a shadow in the sand—the new neighbor? He's strange. A horticulturist, they say. Catherine hasn't met him, but there are rumors. “Did he really steal it?” Vuong asks. She practices her French—it's a dream after all—asks “Le cadavre fleuri?” They move to whispers, like a star's breath in night air. Rumor stands that in the middle of California's Eaton fire, the flower went missing from the Huntington Museum in Pasadena. The Titan Arum, bloated and bizarre in its beauty and stench, just vanished. Fran at the liquor store says the new neighbor, gloves always pressed to the earth, took it.  At night, she hears him in the garden, talking to the roots. She imagines his voice, murmuring something incomprehensible to the moonlight. Like that's where the truth lies—beneath the soil, between the cracks of broken promises, smelling faintly of rot. She recalls the history she once read, so distant, so impossibly rotten. During WWI, when the Nazis swept through Prague, they forced Jewish scholars to scour their archives. They wanted to preserve the so-called “best” of the Jews—manuscripts, texts, holy materials—for their future banjo-twisted Museum of an Extinct Race. She shudders. The music, the wild joy of the banjo, now seems infected with something ancient and spoiled. The act of collecting, of preserving, feels obscene. What do you keep? What do you discard? Whom do you destroy? She wakes from the dream, her phone still alive with French conjugations. The bluegrass hums, but it's heavier, like a rope lowering her into Narragansett Bay. The neighbor's house is dark. But she thinks she can see him, a silhouette against the trees, standing still as a warning. Everything is falling apart at the seams, and she is both a part of it and apart from it. Like each church she left, each youth group and AWANA or Vacation Bible School where she tried to volunteer, to love on the kids, to be the good follower she was tasked with being.  She leans her forehead against the cool glass of the window, closing her eyes. The ache is there, the same ache that never quite leaves. It's sharp, it's bitter, it's whole. The small, steady thrum beneath it all. Il y a toujours plus. Maybe tomorrow she will satisfy Duo. Maybe next fall she will dance down a cobbled street in Prague. Find five minutes to feel human. Perhaps she will be whole enough, tall as St. Vitus Cathedral, to face whatever is left of this America. She closes her eyes to Puccini's Mimi singing Il y a toujours plus and dueling banjos while her neighbor secretly drags a heavy, tarp-covered object across his yard under the flutter of Eastern small-footed bats out for their midnight mosquito snack. A scene only Frida Kahlo could paint.

The Jacked Up Review Show Podcast
Bret Easton Ellis Adaptations Double Feature: American Psycho (2000) & The Rules of Attraction (2002) (with Boomer from Podcast in the Woods)!

The Jacked Up Review Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 81:18


Boomer (from Podcast in the Woods) joins me to summarize Bret Easton Ellis' satirical look at terrible human beings disguised as established elites.    How much more graphic is the book version of AMERICAN PSYCHO and what are some surprising trivia about how it got greenlit?   What sequence of events actually did happen and which ones were in Patrick Bateman's demented mind?   Why was RULES OF ATTRACTION appropriate subject matter for Quentin Tarantino's partner-in-crime Roger Avery?   All that and other books by Ellis that could possibly be adapted in the future with the right satirical filmmaker!    

Adam Carolla Show
Bret Easton Ellis + Stacey Dash (Carolla Classics)

Adam Carolla Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2025 164:49


#1 ACS #1229 (feat. Bret Easton Ellis, David Wild, Alison Rosen and Bryan Bishop) (2013)#2 ACS #1227 (feat. Quinton Aaron and Stacey Dash) (2013)Hosted by Superfan GiovanniRequest clips:Classics@adamcarolla.comSubscribe and Watch Clips on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@AdamCarollaCornerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Cast Me To Hell: A Horror Podcast
Episode 198 - American Psycho (2000) - Book vs Film

Cast Me To Hell: A Horror Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2025 77:20


This week, the boys get literary as we start our Book vs Film season, and what better way to start than discussing American Psycho directed by Mary Harron. Based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton-Ellis and starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, the story leans into the shocking and the surreal as we follow a 90s Wall Street bro. A satirical look at masculinity, capitalism and yuppie culture, we discussed the themes and differences between the novel and the movie adaptation, the incredible character that is Patrick Bateman and why you'll never look at a chunk of brie the same ever again Remember to hit that subscribe button and leave us a lovely review. There's new episodes every week, and we cover horror movies from new releases with spoiler filled and spoiler free reviews, to old classics and B movie gems.  You can find us on twitter and instagram @cmthpodcast or check out our website at https://castmetohell.podbean.com Theme by Dan Motti     

Demise of the Podcast
Episode 329 - Bret Easton Ellis's White Part II

Demise of the Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2025 53:32


跳岛FM
EP03 不花钱,就能抵抗消费主义吗?

跳岛FM

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 3:11


你听到的是跳岛「读懂金钱」付费系列节目的第三期试听片段,「读懂金钱」付费专题目前只在小宇宙app和网易云音乐上线。如果你对我们的内容感兴趣,欢迎你在这两个平台付费支持我们! 一年一度的“双十一”购物节又打响了,你的满减凑得还划算吗? 当买买买逐渐成为一种让人痛并快乐着的苦役,或许你会决心践行极简和长期主义。只是,不花钱,就可以置身事外吗?本期节目,作家、文学翻译于是将从风靡全球的《断舍离》谈起,聊一聊被商品裹挟的我们该如何自处,以及一个比购物节让你多花了多少钱更重要的问题:消费主义,如何改变了你是谁? 从于斯曼《逆流》中奢侈品堆砌出的幻梦,到《信任》中金钱流动背后的性别剥削,再到《美国精神病人》中吞噬个体的品牌清单,暴力与物质互为镜像;理解商品,就是理解消费社会中不知不觉被物化的每一个你和我。 最终,我们或许只能承认:在这个时代,消费早已成为生活的隐形剧本,不论如何抵抗,我们最终只能在无限丰饶的物质包围中,被温柔俘获。 【本期主播】 于是 作家、文学翻译。著有《查无此人》《有且仅有》《你我好时光》等长短篇小说、《慌城孤读》等散文集。译有三十余部英美文学作品,包括诺贝尔文学奖得主奥尔加·托卡尔丘克的《云游》、布克奖得主玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《证言》,国际布克奖得主玛丽克·卢卡斯·莱纳菲尔德的《不安之夜》等。 【时间轴】 01:25 消费,是铺张浪费的陷阱,还是促进经济的法宝? 07:48 断舍离与极简,真的能让我们摆脱消费主义吗? 11:54 《东京八平米》:缩减生活的疆域,反而获得自由 18:43 谈谈异化:只浏览不购物,也在为电商做贡献吗? 24:24 一对年轻人辞职逃离大城市后,为什么又回来上班了? 26:20 《小时代》之外,还有更令人崩溃的logo清单式文学 34:10 鲍德里亚《物体系》:到底什么是氛围感? 36:40 《白噪音》:在超市收银台,排队结算一生的账 46:30 《南货店》:消费主义时代之外的爱情是什么样的? 47:28 何为《信任》:为什么说金钱的本质是一种虚构? 01:03:02 萨拉马戈《物托邦》:当人沦为物,而物统治人 01:05:58 消费主义生活剧场:被观看的我们没有秘密 【节目中提到的人名和作品】 人物 亚当·斯密(Adam Smith):英国经济学家、哲学家,被誉为“经济学之父”。代表作《道德情操论》《国富论》。 卡尔·马克思(Karl Marx):德国著名哲学家、政治理论家、经济学家。他最广为人知的作品是1848年与恩格斯合著的小册子《共产党宣言》,以及三卷本的《资本论》。 费迪南·德·索绪尔(Ferdinand de Saussure):瑞士语言学家、符号学家、哲学家,为20世纪语言学和符号学的发展奠定了基础,被誉为现代语言学之父。 罗兰·巴特(Roland Barthes):法国哲学家、符号学家、文学批评家,代表作《神话修辞术》《恋人絮语》《符号学原理》《明室:摄影札记》等。 皮埃尔·布尔迪厄(Pierre Bourdieu):法国哲学家、社会学家、人类学家,著有《区分:判断力的社会批判》《世界的苦难》。 西蒙娜·德·波伏娃(Simone de Beauvoir):法国哲学家、作家、女权主义活动家,代表作《第二性》详细分析女性受压迫的情况,从哲学高度上建立了当代女权主义。 山下英子(Yamashita Hideko):日本收纳师,通过瑜伽参透了放下心中执念的修行哲学“断行,舍行,离行”,出版作品有《断舍离》《断舍离心灵篇》《年龄断舍离》《自在力》等。 吉井忍(Yoshii Shinobu):日籍华语作家,曾在成都留学,法国南部务农,辗转台北、马尼拉、上海等地任新闻编辑。现专职写作,著有《格外的活法》《东京八平米》《四季便当》《东京本屋》。 赫伯特·马尔库塞(Herbert Marcuse):德裔美籍哲学家和社会理论家、哲学家、美学家、法兰克福学派主要代表,批判发达工业社会对人的异化。著有《单向度的人》《爱欲与文明》《审美之维》等。 齐格蒙特·鲍曼(Zygmunt Bauman):当代社会最著名的社会学家与哲学家之一,代表作《工作、消费主义与新穷人》《现代性与大屠杀》《将熟悉变为陌生》。鲍曼指出现代社会已从“生产者社会”转变为“消费者社会”,人的身份由消费能力定义。金钱与消费不再是选择,而是社会生存的必需。 让·鲍德里亚(Jean Baudrillard):法国社会学家、文化理论家,代表作《消费社会》《物体系》《致命的策略》。他提出消费是一种符号体系,奢侈品的价值源自差异化和符号地位,而非实用性。 乔治·佩雷克(Georges Perec):法国当代著名的先锋小说家,他的小说以任意交叉错结的情节和独特的叙事风格见长,代表作《人生拼图版》《物》《沉睡的人》《W或童年回忆》。 唐·德里罗(Don DeLillo):美国后现代小说家,代表作《白噪音》《地下世界》。他以冷峻的风格书写消费主义、媒体、死亡和技术时代的焦虑。 布雷特·伊斯顿·埃利斯(Bret Easton Ellis):美国作家,代表作《美国精神病》。《美国精神病》一度因暴力与色情内容遭争议,却成为解读20世纪末资本文化的经典文本,揭示了消费主义与人格异化的极端结果。 安德烈·塔可夫斯基(Andrei Tarkovsky):前苏联电影导演、编剧,毕业于莫斯科国立电影学院。代表作《牺牲》《乡愁》《潜行者》《镜子》《索拉里斯》等。 罗伯特·布列松(Robert Bresson):法国电影导演、编剧、剪辑。代表作《扒手》《钱》《死囚越狱》《圣女贞德的审判》等,其中《钱》改编自托尔斯泰短篇小说《假息票》。 列夫·托尔斯泰(Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy):十九世纪俄国批判现实主义作家、政治思想家、哲学家,代表作有《战争与和平》《安娜·卡列尼娜》《复活》等。 若利斯·卡尔·于斯曼(Joris-Karl Huysmans):十九世纪法国小说家,西方现代主义文学转型中的重要作家,象征主义的先行者。擅长对颓废主义和悲观主义进行深度剖析,主要作品有《逆流》《该诅咒的人》《起航》等。 若泽·萨拉马戈(José Saramago):葡萄牙作家,主要作品有《修道院纪事》《失明症漫记》《复明症漫记》等。 杰里米·边沁(Jeremy Bentham):英国法理学家、哲学家、经济学家和社会改革者。1785年提出“圆形监狱”概念,尽管实体建筑未在其生前建成,但方案被扩展至学校、医院等场所设计理念中。法国哲学家米歇尔·福柯在《规训与惩罚》中将其阐释为现代权力机制的隐喻,揭示“全景敞视主义”通过空间关系实现个体规训的原理。 书籍 《国富论》《资本论》《第二性》《老年》《断舍离》《极简主义》《东京八平米》《一间自己的房间》《单向度的人》《物体系》《消费社会》《致命的策略》《冷记忆》《物》《美国精神病》《白噪音》《训道学》《假息票》《南货店》《信任》《逆流》《物托邦》 影视 《大和抚子》《吃饱睡足等幸福》《美国精神病人》《白噪音》《钱》《华尔街之狼》 出品方 | 中信书店 出品人|李楠 策划人|蔡欣 制作人 | 何润哲 广岛乱 运营编辑 | 黄鱼 运营支持|李坪芳 设计|王尊一 后期剪辑 | KIMIU 公众号:跳岛FM Talking Literature 跳到更多:即刻|微博|豆瓣|小红书

The ThawedCast: Conversations About Animation

Philip and Bridget discuss 'American Psycho,' a horror/thriller/Christian Bale vehicle from director Mary Harron. Released in 2000, the film is an adaptation of the 'American Psycho' novel by Bret Easton Ellis that is meant to be a grisly, satirical critique of 1980s corporate culture. Bale portrays Patrick Bateman, a young executive on Wall Street, who is obsessed with his looks and social status, his egocentric inner monologue serving as the film's narration. Along with concealing his terrible insecurity, his outward façade also serves to hide an insatiable bloodlust. A man whose existential void has left him bereft of his humanity, Bateman must deal with the maelstrom of chaos that surrounds him constantly, a desperate scenario placated--and reinforced--by his social standing. Follow The ThawedCast: Conversations About Animation: twitter.com/thawedcast and instagram.com/thawedcast. instagram.com/bridget5246, instagram.com/philipehlke. Visit thawedcast.com

Another Look - A Film Podcast
Episode 379 - American Psycho (Book Adaptations Part III)

Another Look - A Film Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2025 57:59


The season of book to film adaptations continues with the adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's controversial, and often times discussed as 'unadaptable' with AMERICAN PSYCHO.  Please send any and all feedback to anotherlookpod@gmail.com.  Please follow us on Instagram @anotherlookpod, and rate/review/subscribe where ever you get your podcasts!

Not a Bomb
Episode 275 - The Rules of Attraction

Not a Bomb

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 92:23


Welcome back to Not A Bomb! This is the podcast where we explore some of cinema's biggest box office failures and decide whether they deserve a second chance. We are celebrating five years of discussing cinematic flops!Episode 275 of Not A Bomb continues Listener Request Month with Troy and Brad diving headfirst into the chaotic, nihilistic world of Roger Avary's 2002 dark comedy The Rules of Attraction. Adapted from Bret Easton Ellis's novel, the film follows three emotionally fractured college students—Sean Bateman (yes, Patrick Bateman's younger brother), Lauren Hynde, and Paul Denton—as they spiral through drugs, sex, and existential dread at the fictional Camden College.While the marketing teased a cheeky American Pie-style romp, the film delivers something far darker: a transgressive, nonlinear fever dream built on split screens, rewound timelines, and surreal montages that mirror its characters' moral decay. Critics weren't laughing—many recoiled at its unflinching depictions of suicide, sexual assault, and emotional numbness—but Troy and Brad dig in, unpacking both the film's stylistic bravado and its brutal honesty about youth culture.⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion of heavy drug use, sexual violence, and suicide, mirroring the film's unflinching content.The Rules of Attraction is directed by Roger Avary and stars James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Kip Purdue, Jessica Biel, Ian Somerhalder, Clifton Collins, Jr., Thomas Ian Nicholas, Swoosie Kurtz, and Kaye DunawayTo celebrate the last 25 years of film, the Not A Bomb podcast is compiling a Top 25 list from the Not A Bomb community. If you would like to submit your own list, please use this form to enter your 25 choices. For a film to be eligible, it must have been released between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2025. Those are the only rules. Thank you for being a part of the community! Stay tuned for a special episode revealing the results in December. Head over to Not A Bomb 25 in 25 to fill out the form!Want to help support the show? Head over to the Not A Bomb Tee Public store and check our merchandise. Special thanks to Ted Blair for the amazing designs!We're committed to hearing your feedback and suggestions. If there's a cinematic flop you'd like us to delve into, please reach out to us at NotABombPod@gmail.com or through our contact page. Your reviews and feedback are what drive us. If you enjoy our content, consider leaving a review on Apple Podcast or Spotify.Cast: Brad, Troy

The Queer Quadrant
The Rules of Attraction with Horror Queers

The Queer Quadrant

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 106:20


Jordan and Brooke are re-joined by Trace Thurman and Joe Lipsett (Horror Queers) for a very chill and normal Bret Easton Ellis adaptation. We talk the YA to adult acting pipeline, if this movie knows what it knows, ya know? (we don't know), the soundtrack, formative dancing to George Michael, and one very memorable Europe montage.Follow Joe & Trace on Patreon and Instagram!Follow us on Twitter, Bluesky, and IG! (And Jordan's Letterboxd / Brooke's Letterboxd)For privacy & ad info, visit: audacyinc.com/privacy-policy/

The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast
The Stacks: What We're Reading in September and the Latest in Horror Fiction

The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 123:39


The Losers return for another round of recommends in The Stacks, our monthly series about all the good shit we've been reading, watching, and listening to this month. For this installment, Randall, Mike, and Ashley discuss Stephen King's take on Hansel & Gretel with the late Maurice Sendak. They also go over new releases, what they've been reading as of late, and more. Here's a list of all the titles covered: Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story by Rich Cohen; The Troop by Nick Cutter; The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis; All Hallows by Christopher Golden; Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture by Brandon Grafius; Certain Nocturnal Disturbances: Ghost Hunting before the Victorians by Tim Prasil; Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson; Hole in the Sky by Daniel H Wilson; The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton and Daniel H Wilson; Demonlover (movie); and TASK (TV show). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Virtual Memories Show
Episode 654 - ML Rio

The Virtual Memories Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 78:09


With her amazing new novel, HOT WAX (Simon & Schuster), author, critic, and inveterate road-tripper M.L. Rio evokes the rock scene of the '80s and the travails of the not-quite-Almost-Famous band GIL AND THE KILLS. We talk about the redemptive & destructive power of rock & roll, how music is inseparable from her writing process, the challenge of writing about live performance, why it makes sense that "the girl with the Shakespeare degree is writing a rock & roll novel," and why she couldn't gloss over the sweatiness of touring and road trips. We get into the literature gap of people in their 30s (esp. women), how this novel evolved with her over a decade, what it's like operating in male-dominated spaces like music criticism, why she's going out on a 34-city book tour and trying to make it as fun as a rock tour (including merch!), what it means to be an ethical eavesdropper, how she stays safe (and well fed) while solo road-tripping around America, and the joy of radio crime drama. We also discuss the obsessiveness of record collectors, the loss of nuance in literature, the warping influence of Catholicism (and the perils of reading Shakespeare and Bret Easton Ellis way too young), our first concerts (her: Green Day, me: Asia), and a lot more. Follow M.L. on Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Stripe, Patreon, or Paypal, and subscribe to our e-newsletter

The Perfume Nationalist
Glamorama (w/ Niels Francis) **TEASER**

The Perfume Nationalist

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 5:01


Mugler Cologne by Thierry Mugler (2001) + Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis (1998) with Niels Francis 7/17/25 S7E49 To hear this episode and the complete continuing story of The Perfume Nationalist please subscribe on Patreon. 

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Overdue
Ep 708 - American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis (w/ Too Scary, Didn't Watch!)

Overdue

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 93:05


We're joined by Sammy and Emily of the TOO SCARY, DIDN'T WATCH horror movie podcast this week to talk about Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. None of us had an amazing time with this read, partly because the book seems to revel in its extreme violence and misogyny. But be sure to tune in to TSDW later this week to hear what we all thought about the Christian Bale-led movie adaptation!For more from Too Scary, Didn't Watch:Website: https://www.tooscarydidntwatch.com/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/too-scary-didnt-watch/id1476552025Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/528s8w9v4MKG55ZyQXHj9gOur theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Follow @overduepod on Instagram and BlueskyAdvertise on OverdueSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.