James Ellroy

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• Tenuously Reformed Pervert

  
  London Review Blog — Authority: 574
  James Ellroy comes across as being a difficult man to interview. It’s not that he clams up – he seems to love doing interviews – or only says boring stuff. But his schtick-to-vaguely-serious-answer ratio is highly variable, depending on what kind of mood he’s in, how much press he’s been doing lately and ...
  2 days ago

• Is James Ellroy The Best Judge Of His Own Novels?

  
  LinkMachineGo — Authority: 602
  [books] Is James Ellroy The Best Judge Of His Own Novels? … James Ellroy on The Cold Six Thousand … ‘Ellroy was already there, sitting on a dais, dressed casually – khaki jumper with suede elbow pads, chinos and surprisingly fashionable shoes – more geography teacher on a field trip than “the demon ...
  3 days ago

• The Ghosts of Belfast

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Product DescriptionThe best first novel Ive read in years…Its a flat-out terror trip.James Ellroy Not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times.John Connolly The Ghosts of Belfast is the book when the world finally [...]
  5 days ago

• Arts Roundup: Indie Bookstores Need Better Rocking Chairs

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 144
  Morning, y’all! Above is a lil bit of Mountain Goats/Aesop Rock to start your day. Clay Shirky , new media prognosticator extraordinaire,  turns his attention to bookstores , and his analysis and conclusions hit awfully close to home. Ask the average District dandy for a list of retail complaints, and the ...
  5 days ago

• Time Taveling Capsule Reviews!!!

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 415
  Work has been absolute murder this week, and I have no energy to write anything new. If you think thats rough for me, think about how it affects you . However, in there interest of laziness, I remembered that, in 2008, I wrote a whole ass-load of capsule film reviews for a (primarily) literature forum called ...
  1 week ago

• Window-Peeper As Witness To History: An Interview With James Ellroy

  
  The Moviegoer — Authority: 129
  “Scripture-pure veracity and scandal-rag content. That conjunction gives it its sizzle.” That’s how the narrator of James Ellroy’s stunning new novel Blood’s a Rover describes the 600 pages that follow — but that description would apply equally well to any of James Ellroy’s books, which include 13 ...
  2 weeks ago

• James Ellroy on Bloods a Rover, the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Petina Gappah on short stories

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  In todays podcast we talk to "the demon dog of American crime fiction", James Ellroy, about his latest book, Bloods a Rover - the final part of his magisterial Underworld USA trilogy which covers a 14-year stretch of American history from 1958 to 1972. He tells Xan Brooks about why he has no interest in writing about ...
  2 weeks ago

• The buzz on Crime Beat next week

  
  Crime Beat — Authority: 421
  Stray doppies Quotable quotes (1) from Louis Greenberg : ‘I find that the SA crime I’ve read thus far is actually rather idealistic and feel-good, no matter how violent or troubling.’ Quotable quotes (2) from Margie Orford : ‘There is a fundamental rift (in my view) between men and women in South ...
  2 weeks ago

• Insurrection And Sex

  
  For The Sake Of The Song — Authority: 117
  Confidential 1-A: Director´s Eyes Only. Speaking: Director Hoover, Special Agent Dwight C. Holly. JEH: Good morning, Dwight. DH: Good morning, Sir. JEH: Before you ask, the answer is yes. Expedite Operation Baaaad Brother in the manner you described in you memo. DH: Thank you, Sir. JEH: The title possesses ...
  2 weeks ago

• Star of the Noir: an audience with LA Confidential author James Ellroy

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  The king of hardboiled crime fiction on the affair that almost ruined him and inspired his new book.
  2 weeks ago

• Unsolved mysteries

  
  Minnesota Reads — Authority: 419
  Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchert are boxers turned coppers who have recently forged a friendship and partnership after kicking the shit out of each other in a highly-publicized, post-retirement boxing match that resulted in huge headlines, cash for the LAPD, and a promotion for Bucky in James Ellroy’s fictional ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bloods a Rover by James Ellroy | Book review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Set in the 1960s, the final novel in James Ellroys Underworld USA trilogy reflects the here and now, writes Christopher Tayler James Ellroy often tells interviewers that he has no interest in current events, but even he seems to feel that the stars are in alignment for the publication of Bloods a Rover , the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Oxford Companion to English Literature ed by Dinah Birch: review

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Sameer Rahim finds that not even Wikipedia can compare to the Oxford Companion to English Literature
  3 weeks ago

• The Juan MacLean

  
  Analogue Magazine — Authority: 405
  Still riding the wave of his excellent The Future Will Come , The Juan MacLean was in town to grace the Heineken Expressions tour and show the masses at Tripod what disco sounded like before nu-disco. Having spent much of the year touring with his live show, and then took off across Europe on a two-week DJ tour. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 126
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
  3 weeks ago

• LA Jeopardy Question

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 540
  A: James Ellroy calls him “the visual deus ex machina of what has become the most over-scrutinized city on earth.” Q: Who is Ed Ruscha. Check out the Times Online for more on Ruscha and LA (and David Lynch!)
  4 weeks ago

• James Ellroy: Bloods a Rover

  
  pulpetti — Authority: 123
  As often happens nowadays, Im busy, so I wont be writing long about James Ellroys Bloods a Rover (out in Finnish as Levoton veri / The Reckless Blood , or something to that effect). Its a book, though, that couldve - shouldve - deserved a lot lengthier review than Im able at the moment. Suffice to say that I ...
  4 weeks ago

• From Noir to Eternity

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 131
  In his Cinoque blog at liberation.fr, Edouard Waintrop tells a terrific story about the public benefits of a solitary passion. He reports on a film festival that ran in Lyon, from October 13th-18th, under the auspices of the Institut Lumiére (Clint Eastwood got a life-achievement award there), and, in particular, ...
  4 weeks ago

• "What I’ve created in Blood’s a Rover is the private infrastructure of great public..."

  
  Conserva tive Radical — Authority: 141
  “What I’ve created in Blood’s a Rover is the private infrastructure of great public events. The over arching spiritual figure of this book is dead before the book begins - it’s Martin Luther King - arguably the greatest 20th Century American. Two of the three protagonists were involved in his assassination and ...
  4 weeks ago

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