and then outlined the controversy in detail (70-71). Those writing about Ellis's two most recent novels, Glamorama (1999) and Lunar Park (2005), have shared this narrative strategy, which also forms at least part of the frame of every interview article. American Psycho also, again predictably, became a major topic of discussion in relation to the contracting, making and then release of the eponymous film in 2000 as, for example, in Linda S. Kauffman's extensive and considered review of the film, which spent the first third discussing the history of the book's publication (" American " 41-45). Playing with this interest, Ellis continues his practice of reusing characters in subsequent works. Thus, American Psycho 's Patrick Bateman, who first appeared in The Rules of Attraction as the elder brother of the main character, Sean -- who, in turn, makes a brief appearance in American Psycho -- also turns up in Glamorama with 'strange stains' on his Armani suit lapels, and again in Lunar Park . 12 The book also continues to be regularly cited in discussions of censorship (see, for example, Dubin; Freccero) and has been included in a number of university-level courses about banned books. In these varied contexts, literary, cultural and other critics have also continued to disagree about the book's impact upon readers, with some persisting in reading the novel as a pornographic incitement to violence. When Wade Frankum killed seven people in Sydney, many suggested a link between these murders and his consumption of X-rated videos, pornographic