sentences:  In an interview, Maddox praised Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel "American Psycho", stating that he drew inspiration from protagonist Patrick Bateman's long-winded monologues about Phil Collins, restaurants, clothes, and how to remove blood from his carpets.In 2001, Maddox promoted his first novel on a joint book tour billed as the "Minor Novelists Tour" with his friend William Monahan, another former "Spy" editor, but it was interrupted by the 9/11 attacks.Monahan's "" was also published by a Penguin imprint.