So, you don't think that American Psycho could have been published in today's literary climate? ?
Obviously, not, Liam!
At least, in my country...
In nowadays,
American Psycho is being treated as a dangerous work for "incels", "redpills", "MGTOWs", etc.
I don't know the reality in North-American, but in my country freedom of speech and creativity in Arts no longer exists here.
I don't want to approach political subjects here and I don't know if you are knowing what is happening here (Elon Musk vs Brazilian Supreme Court, specially about the controversial Alexandre de Moraes), but there is ocurring a vortex of censorship by two sides (left and right).
On the left, false-moralism against alleged "racism, xenophoby, sexism, chauvinism, fatphobia", etc.
On the right, false-moralism against alleged "homossexuality, drugs, etc".
Our dear Leseratte started a thread about it:
https://www.worldliteratureforum.co...banning-of-books-in-brazil.68257/#post-189302
So, you can conclude that our situation is very bad!