'AMERICAN PSYCHO' AUTHOR INTERVIEWS WSU PROFESSOR ABOUT FILM CRITICISM

PULLMAN, Wash., July 29 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:

Bret Easton Ellis, the acclaimed and controversial author best known for his novel American Psycho, recently invited a Washington State University English professor onto his podcast for a nearly two-hour conversation about film, writing, and creativity.

Grant Maierhofer is the current Buchanan Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Department of English at WSU. He is also the recent author of Synecdoche, NewYork: Movies Minute by Minute, a critical analysis of Charlie Kaufman's 2008film of the same title. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theater director whose commitment to realism increasingly consumes both his artistic vision and li...