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S6E17: How To Psychoanalyze Your Neighbors with A.M. Homes (Patreon)

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Writer A.M. Homes and Bret Easton Ellis discuss an unsettling occupational hazard of being an author, unfolding the Big Guy and grasping for human connection through youthful correspondence with famous strangers. Part 1 of 2. 

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diane

This is my favorite interview on the pod. Rock solid conversation.

daisy

Don’t miss David Lean’s film “Passage To India” based upon E.M. Forester’s novel.

Patrick

Just started, but it’s another writer/writer convo! 🤗

Steve

Very good. Writers are always good guests. Bret, consider having Blake Bailey on the show. He was canceled shortly after the Roth biography came out.

Keith campbell

Is it just me or is Bret suddenly repeatedly complaining about how many years he spent writing Glamorama? Not sure if he is criticising his own work ethic or if he now thinks the book is kinda dumb. Or just retrospective frustration at how little impact it made ( I still love it )

Kerry

Such a good episode The writers really are the best guests!

Antonio Primavera

No one reads Salman Rushdie. The only reason anyone knows who Salman Rushdie is because of the fatwa (and the hot wife). A lot of time has passed and memories fade. He probably paid someone to stab him so he could get back in the press. Muslim-baiting is a great career.

M. Nero Nava
>>91995575

I think it’s likely on his mind as a contrast to The Shards. I’ve noticed that too

M. Nero Nava
>>92006878

Quichotte came out in 2019, it sold pretty well, and received favorable reviews. He makes a lot of money on lecture circuit. I’m not a big fan or anything—but you’re wrong.

Poetical Gore
>>92006878

OMG someone dare say something bad about islam in the book...that is grounds for death sentence...sure....

Seneca Garcia

Glamorana took a long time, but it was also relentlessly hilarious in the first half and I reckon it took a lot of work to sustain that tap dance through the barrage of super silly quips. clearly the funniest out of the ouuvreee —

richard owain roberts

am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.

Anthony Giancola

Bret should more regularly have authors on, cause it always results in great conversations.

Jack

Dave Eggers could be a good guest. I just finished The Circle and loved it

Fernando

Holy shit this is good

Harrison Bergeron

Great stuff. Please do a monologue on the recently departed Jean-Luc Godard! More or less all of his notable films are on Criterion Channel right now. Watching them feels like a drink of cold water when the theaters are full of overwarm soda like Bullet Train.

Ben

Captain Fiction or Gary Fisketjon as guests please.

bpvalentine
>>92070308

I tried reading the novel that movie is based on. Since my 80s childhood I've wanted to see a movie that sort of gets a tone like that without being a piece of shit. The only movie I can think of off hand that at least gets close is the Joe Carnahan movie that I think BEE mentioned, Smoking Aces. I'm not sure I think it's even a good idea anymore. At least not for a traditional movie format of 2hrs or less. Certainly not more. I say it that way because not even the excellent work of the Zuckers at their peak or the Farrelly brothers at their best could quite pull off a completely satisfying movie. By that very general sounding phrase I just mean movies that didn't end up shitting the bed before credits rolled. Something About Mary, for me, comes closest for "here for the jokes but stayed for the plot" kind of thing. And Cameron Diaz really nailed that whole perfect ideal girl role that could have been cloying or good here but just OK there -- I'm not talking about body, if it sounds that way. I just mean you know characters like these are written poorly and they're so real in some scenes and total cartoons in other scenes and the character comes off as entirely fabricated. Some middle-aged writer's fuck fantasy. Growing up, my first writer pet peeve was how novelists in 80s and 90s (Boomers, I guess, as if there was any doubt! Just kidding, Boomers, some of you are my favorite filmmakers and writers...as if anybody is reading my shitty comment, haha). I always hated the old middle-aged college professor who has the hottest piece in his class trying to "seduce" HIM (bc our hero would never use his position to exploit a student -- never!). And this whole deal seemed to be recycled time after time, for example, in every Michael Crichton (christ, did he win an award for Best Least Intuitive spelling of a name ever? I nominate him now, if not... next to my Best Least Employment of Good Grammar award). All this is a way of saying the Bullet Train novel didn't hold my attention for long. And it had that Charlie Huston "fun" vibe that really means no fun at all and just boring hack writing people who rarely read love. I'm getting a breathalyzer installed on all my comments so this tragedy will never be repeated. EDIT: the "boomer" part of my opus was before listening to this BEE hour. Just FYI.

BUtterfield8

I was shocked that she said that she hadn't read the great 19thC novels. Maybe that was an exaggeration or something. I wasn't any kind of a literature major but I still took classes where I read Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola, etc. And, I read The Mill on the Floss for fun in college. I practically read it straight; it was great. Geez, Bret. A few podcasts ago Bret said that he was moving on to Zola. Please report back, Bret. You seem a little bit like the Zola of your day. I should revisit those books. This podcast is such an inspiration for reading, as well as a source of streaming shows to watch. I can't find anything good to watch. I got so desperate that I have been trying the Acorn channel, which is lots of formulaic British mystery shows (like the second tier ones), and PBS Documentaries. Suggestions, anyone?

Marisa Urgo Shaalan

🙄…this novel summary. Oh tell me how eeevil republicans are all secret subversives. How transgres…Yawn! 🙄🙄

N.M. Janice.

Very enjoyable first half. Another great writer episode. A.M. is a great guest! I love BEE’s reviews and thoughts on cinema, but conversations about literature and the art of writing is really where he is most in his wheelhouse.

Brian Rooney
>>92111110

Try Refn’s Too Old to Die Young on Amazon. By no means perfect … but it works sometimes … if not that, then mad men rewatch is never a bad way to spend one’s time … or perhaps Atlanta on Hulu … Enlightended, the Leftovers, White Lotus on HBO.

Chad Daniel Russell

Excellent. Listened three times. Writers are easily my favorite guests (directors are a close second).

kelton water

this was so great, really hit a sweet spot with the literary convo

Erik Jerrard

WHAT DOES SHE THINK OF THE EAGLES ??!!! 🦅

P Smoke

Great episode. Looking forward to pt II. Also just finished ‘tapping the source’ which was mentioned a few eps ago - so so good. Now onto James Ellroy and the Black Dahlia. Thank you to Brett, guests and listeners for the constant flow of great reading recs! 🙏🏻

Walter Robinson

Ha ha waiting for a discussion of AMs new book - which strikes me as sympathetic to MAGAts - & it never comes…

Rowan Oliver

Bret: suggestion: you should watch and review the movie Fall

Joe Marklin

Where is part 2? Shouldn't it have been released by now?

James__
>>92249985

Cool - I just finished ‘tapping the source’. Loved it too. These writer episodes are great for recommendations.

Mikael Pawlo

Best episode in quite a while. 5 smuggled Philip Roth’s dad’s bottles out of five

Vin Bravo

Great episode. Also love the ones with writers. Noticed Bret had dinner with Irvine Welsh. Been suggesting have Welsh on for a while. Adam, can you guys make that happen!?

MikeE

Oh Bret…suddenly people are just ‘dying’ for reasons medically unclear or nonsensical: driving 100 down a side street for absolutely no reason (weird shit like the Heche crash is happening so often first responders have their own internal descriptor, ‘vaxcidents’) just dying of ‘dying’ no cause given or demanded, in one’s 20’s (well to be fair, that’s often diagnosed-heart failure or stroke in previously perfectly healthy young people…NORMAL, of course) 30’s 40’s 50’s 60’s in numbers, at rates, so far above the historical mean that they almost defy actuarial science…and it’s just shoulder-shrugging normal? Really? REALLY? Everyone KNOWS it isn’t, but just stuffs it down inside, the dissonance slowing causing them to become unmoored from reality, and wondering why they feel so anxious, so…weird? Why things lately feel so unreal? Is the external and, far more psychologically damaging, internal censoring of the obvious truth now so (and all credit where due, via the most brilliant PR/propaganda campaign of all time) culturally embedded that those who absolutely must be aware of it, who you’d last expect to go along with the insane denial, the ‘it’s just so crazy and awful, but NORMAL…’ now apparently are, at least publicly. This external and internal denial of some awful yet clearly obvious truths is driving so many people to the edge, and over, the edge of sanity that things are going to get so crazy it’s beyond belief. As it were.

Dave

The Holmes interview is one of the best!

Nick B

Bought the book based on your conversation with AM. Finished it in just over a week. Then again even a mention of Palm Springs as the back drop in a book makes me click Buy Now immediately. Thanks for the recommendation and conversation, as always.