Title: American Psycho
Authors: Jason Huff and Mimi Cabell
Publisher: TRAUMAWIEN
Distribution: Lulu.com
Format: 416 pages, 6 x 9 inches, black and white, paperback
ISBN: none
American Psycho was created by sending the entirety of Bret Easton Ellis’ violent, masochistic and gratuitous novel “American Psycho” through Google-mail, one page at a time. Jason Huff and Mimi Cabell collected the ads that appeared next to each e-mail and used them to annotate the original text, page by page. In printing it as a perfect bound book, the artists erased the body of Bret Easton Ellis’ text and left only chapter titles and constellations of our added footnotes. What remains is American Psycho, told through its chapter titles and annotated relational Google ads.