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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
''True crime'' has such a florid, overdressed reputation that it pays to remember the genre's monuments -- In Cold Blood or The Executioner's Song -- are marked by their bloodless eloquence. Even the chronically feverish James Ellroy restrained himself in My Dark Places, a coolly deliberate autopsy of his mother's murder. For all the exhaustive research, interviews and controlled dispassion, the identity...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Christopher Tayler on James Ellroy's interview technique . • A possible thematic bias in "best books" lists. • Mary Beard on the hidden meaning of Catullus's most infamous line . • The Kindle and the Twilight generation . • When literary movie adaptations are too faithful . Peter Robins guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content...
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LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
[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 dog, the [...]
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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I was impressed by James Ellroy about a month back when Norman Rush covered his Underworld USA Trilogy in the NYRB. Mostly I was drawn in my Ellroy's dramatically stripped-down style and his vaguely Dilloesque project of writing a fictional shadow-history of the U.S. Little more on this trilogy now in The Guardian in the form of a review of the third volume, Blood's A Rover : There is much to admire...
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PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Sunday Papers: Observer: The Martin Beck crime series and the queen of crime http://bit.ly/8dkNBn TimesOnline: The conversation: James Ellroy http://bit.ly/7T7P1B - Author reads from his book and tells of his breakdown, divorce and drugs London Times Review: THE JUNIOR OFFICERS’ READING CLUB http://bit.ly/6L0M4b And what fighting in Afghanistan is all about - pretty grim. The Age on The Cornwell...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Machine gun prose meets labyrinthine plot in James Ellroy's latest, says Sean O'Hagan The title of James Ellroy's latest novel is taken from AE Housman's poem "Reveille", a very English meditation on life's brevity. Four lines from the poem also provide the book's epigraph. Discovering that Ellroy digs Housman is one of the few surprising things about Blood's a Rover , the concluding part...
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Blank Mag (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The celebrated crime writer reveals that after his last book led to a breakdown, drugs and divorce, this time he has his demons in check Some illuminating pre-interview James Ellroy research shows: “America’s greatest living crime writer” (some would root for Elmore Leonard) feigning joyful masturbation for the benefit of the Playboy Channel outside the [...]
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Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I want to find the guy who invented sex and ask him what he's working on now- Joke quoted by James Ellroy in the Times The Church is like a swimming pool, most of the noise comes from the shallow end- Theologian W.H. Vanstone quoted in the Guardian Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. -Woody Allen, quoted in the Independent. It is...
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Malcolm Redfellow revivus (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The excellence of Richard J. Evans There's a small pile of unread fiction beside Malcolm's desk. Another on his bedside table. In the usual run of things, Nine Dragons, the 14th Harry Bosch, would be a day's non-work. Robert Harris's Lustrum , Cicero 2 , would be not much longer. James Ellroy's Blood's a Rover , completing the Underworld USA trilogy, might demand a bit longer. All of those have been...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Few of us have had the chance to read Rick Remender's upcoming series, The Last Days of American Crime , but it's already tapped for the big-screen treatment. To sweeten the deal, American Crime already has a face. An Australian one. Mania is reporting that Sam Worthington has signed on to play the series' star criminal, Graham Brick. American Crime is set in a near-future where the government has...
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Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It’s been a terrific year for Stuart Neville. Superb reviews of his debut novel, THE TWELVE (aka THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST); interviewing James Ellroy at the Belfast Waterfront; and last weekend – in case you missed it – a lovely write up from Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times , in which TGOB was the lead review. All of which is very nice indeed, but then Stuart is a very nice bloke...
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The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
(with apologies to James Ellroy) 'New Moon' posters perniciously proliferate. Heart-throb head shots hang from hoardings. Brooding bloodsuckers emblazon bus stops. The emo undead encroach on commercial breaks, inveigle the internet, gaze glassy-eyed from glossy magazines. I'm implicity ignoring and tenaciously tuning out the abject adverts. I'm soft-pedalling on Stephanie Meyer's sell-out saga and...
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Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Continuing the James Ellroy theme of talented people being obsessed, here's writer Cormac McCarthy in a rare interview with the WSJ: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to...
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The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Continuing the James Ellroy theme of talented people being obsessed, here's writer Cormac McCarthy in a rare interview with the WSJ: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
IT'S MESMERISING watching James Ellroy eat. Boy, is the "demon dog" of American literature hungry. He's sitting there with a whole pepperoni pizza and a portio
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