The Very Good Soldier On the American Journey of Bret Easton Ellis

I spent 4 months reporting this profile of Bret Easton Ellis, culminating in an interview with the man himself.
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The Very Good Soldier On the American Journey of Bret Easton Ellis

A very long essay about Bret Easton Ellis. I admit my interest waned after the section dealing with GLAMORAMA (which is not only Ellis's best book, but one of the best books of the 1990s) but I read the whole thing. You should too.
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How "American Psycho" Was Sold, Written, Cancelled and Saved An excerpt from a Bret Easton Ellis profile.

For the 35th anniversary of #AmericanPsycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, here's a long investigative piece charting how the book was sold, then written, the canceled

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Thank you so much for the kind words! I loved your review, by the way, you tell your experience of reading it like a narrative on its own -- which Im sure is part of MZD's hope.

(Also, double delight in seeing the shoutout: Reactor rejected the pitch for a short version of that FAMILIAR piece)

Ah, OK, I misread the post about and "Alan Moore Patreon Q&A"

@rangedtouch.bsky.social I'm really excited for your Alan Moore interview at the end of Promethea! Have you set a date for when it woll be posted?

Giant of the Attic On the Majesty of Alan Moore

After one week, my 11,500-word profile of Alan Moore and his ambitious new project with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, THE LONG LONDON, is getting picked up by other venues!

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This was around the time he claims to've been tripping twice a week for a couple years.

rewatching stranger things and realizing “oh that’s the same music they used during the ‘birth’ of Doctor manhattan in the watchmen” and wondering why I can remember this but not my sister’s birthday

Giant of the Attic On the Majesty of Alan Moore

I spent the past few months reporting a profile of Alan Moore: his shift to full-time novelist, his fallout with DC, and his new, risky, huge project at @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Indiscreet here, but I think @pattonoswalt.bsky.social would like it

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I just finished a lengthy profile of Moore and, interestingly enough, almost all the friends and colleagues of his that I interviewed made a comment about how much he smokes, but none said anything about asking for a hit...

I just finished writing a long profile about Moore's new career turns and projects -- spent months on it and never really got a clear picture of his relationship with Rob Liefeld. Their accounts of the collaboration diverge a lot. Is there a prevailing idea of what that partnership was like?

High praise indeed!

Hey, thanks for giving my essay some love! Mind if I ask what you're most interested in about Moore?

Alan Moore awakened by news of a forthcoming V for Vendetta prestige tv series

Thanks to @bundleofholding.com for spreading the word!

So happy you found my Alan Moore piece, thanks for sharing it!

Took a long time but it was the trippiest, most delightful reporting I've ever done.

Grateful to @kottke.org for sharing the deep-dive Alan Moore profile I wrote for The Metropolitan Review!

Thank you so much for spreading the word! I spent a few months in the weeds researching/reporting this article and it was one of the most exciting/bizarre projects I've ever worked on.

In all my research for a long Alan Moore profile, I was never able to confirm the story that Moore came home one day and found Johnny Depp sitting on his porch, and then they went to a pub and got drunk together and that's partly why Moore doesn't rag on this movie.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

And I'll take advantage of the kind word as a reason for reposting it -- www.metropolitanreview.org/p/giant-of-t...

Liefeld allegedly has a tape recording of a 3-hour phone conversation with Alan Moore from when he (Moore) had just seen Pulp Fiction for the first time. "I can't get Tarantino off my MIND..."

Moore insists he's never spoken with Liefeld on the phone.

Liefeld says he'll release the tape someday.

Ultimate stamp of approval: spending 3 months researching a 40pg profile about an eccentric, challenging author--and getting a thumbs up from that author's fans when it's done.

Read about Alan Moore's latest career moves at The Metropolitan Review!

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Thank you so much for sharing it! I'm delighted to hear you had a good time with it!

I read this more than twelve hours ago and just as Christmas carols are tinkling through every storefront I've got "Monster Mash" stuck in my head on loop

This is beautiful! I've seen a few of these really charming anecdotes, people meeting Moore when they were young and him saying something perfect; I hope they get raked up into a collection someday.

Dang, I've never seen a copy of Birth Caul out in the wild, nor Small Killing. This is a great collection.

Good lord that's a perfect descriptor...

Even before the Watchmen fiasco, Moore was consistently observant of and vocal about IP protection in comics. The only thing as consistent as the quality of his work has been his championing of artists' rights.