21. James Ellroy Interview With Don Swaim Listen to the james ellroy interview with Don Swaim in RealAudio. http://wiredforbooks.org/jamesellroy/index.htm

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with James Ellroy James Ellroy, author of The Big Nowhere L.A. Confidential and American Tabloid , captures the sounds, language and sites of the 40s in mystery novel The Black Dahlia The Black Dahlia, which has more recently been made into a film, is based on the true story of a murder case of 1947 in LA. A 22-year-old woman was found sexually assaulted and sliced in half five days after she went missing. Once the press discovered that, while alive, this young woman dressed completely in black hoping the sophisticated look would make her an easier cast for Hollywood movies of the time, she was dubbed with the nickname "Black Dahlia." The story was all over the press, mainly because such horrific events rarely occurred during that time. The press ate it up and kept it on their front pages for six straight weeks. Needless to say, the L.A. police were under great pressure to solve the case. In reality, the case remains unsolved, but Ellroy did solve it in his novel. Ellroy's strange obsession with this case and with detective novels in general ever since boyhood is likely the result of his mother's murder. When Ellroy was 10, his mother was found strangled to death in the bushes new the local high school. The case was never solved.

22. Identity Theory | Interviews | James Ellroy Writer james ellroy, who once announced his ambition to be known as the greatest crime novelist who has ever lived, was born is Los Angeles in 1948. http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum13.html

info submissions news donate navigation interviews fiction nonfiction music ... home extras idt store staff openings links backpage ... quotes "what am i looking at?" identity theory is a regularly published, web-based magazine of literature and culture edited by matt borondy. [ contact in case you missed them at the top of the page... info/staff submissions newsletter donate James Ellroy Author of L.A. Confidential talks with Robert Birnbaum Posted: (Unknown Date), 2001 All photos by Red Diaz / Duende Publishing Print this interview. Writer James Ellroy , who once announced his ambition "to be known as the greatest crime novelist who has ever lived," was born is Los Angeles in 1948. He has written Brown's Requiem Clandestine Blood on the Moon Because the Night , and Killer Road The Black Dahlia The Big Nowhere LA Confidential and White Jazz American Tabloid , which takes us up to November 22, 1963. In 1996, Ellroy reinvestigated the unsolved homicide of his mother, in his memoir

23. Book Covers Kiddies, anyone who thinks they can design a cover for james ellroy with ‘quiet type’ is DREAMING. Wake up! He’s the most raucous writer on the planet! http://covers.fwis.com/blood_on_the_moon

features recently commented submit a cover about ... search Designer: Chip Kidd title: Blood on the Moon author: James Ellroy publisher: Vintage available at Amazon.com Not to dismiss Chip Kidd’s design on these, but the hero of this three cover series is the photographer. Thomas Allen works with old books (usually pulp covers) and converts them into cleverly structured dioramas. I really can’t express how awesome I find these. I’d like to see him take a stab at old pulp scifi novels. You can check out a small slide show of his work here Ben Pieratt here: http://www.foleygallery.com/artists/artist_ins.php3?artist=8 dave James clara Kevin Kelly Thanks dave. Ben Pieratt Graham G Sara Goldsmith Richard the out-of-focus background elements really make them for me Eric Jacobsen the type seems to really kill these. the treatments are all too loud and inconsistent from each other, and take attention away from what is a really good idea mike cfk awesome! the photos make the cover.. eric xvc sdf this suxx qwe >the type seems to really kill these sc CK Paul Santos Ryan Good call, Ryan.

24. James Ellroy - Interesting Motherfucker And what contemporary author goes down nice and smooth with rampant conspiracy theories better than james ellroy? Tom Clancy ? Who said that? http://www.forbisthemighty.com/acidlogic/im_james_ellroy.htm

presents... Interesting Motherfucker : (noun) An individual exhibiting such uniqueness or individuality that he or she will cause a roomful of bar cronies to exclaim, "That's one interesting motherfucker!" Actual sexual relations with one's mother are not required. More Acid Logic stuff! Home Search Links Columns Features Interviews Fiction Acid Radio Sign Guestbook View Guestbook Blogs By John Saleeby Dig it, Bookworms - Better get your summer reading done before the next round of suicide bombers comes in and you waste another six months watching CNN twenty four hours a day. And what contemporary author goes down nice and smooth with rampant conspiracy theories better than James Ellroy ? "Tom Clancy"? Who said that? Get that old guy some Maalox and get him the hell outta here! James Ellroy is THE Two Fisted Tough Guy Novelist for these paranoid times and . . . Hey, look out the window and make sure that old dude isn't waiting for me out in the parking lot with a baseball bat. As a young man Ellroy was what my Mom and Dad used to call "a bum". Now they call em "like John". He took a lot of drugs, lived on a one hundred percent pure beef diet with the steaks he would shoplift out of supermarkets, hung around in public libraries, slept in the park, and walked around with cotton stuffed in his ears to stop The Voices (But this was when The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and Randy Newman were just starting out so LA was full of people walking around with cotton stuffed in their ears) - Clearly a futile effort to get his Mother off of his mind and we can all relate to that. But there is no escape! Send the Old Lady some flowers and give her a call cause even if she gets murdered and you take all the drugs in the world she will still track you down and ruin your day.

25. Ellroy, James --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on ellroy, james American author james ellroy, long regarded a master of the crimefiction genre, continued his move http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9383783/Ellroy-James

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26. Ellroy In the beginning, at least, james ellroy was not a typical secondary victim. ellroy’s father went out of his way to poison james against Jean. http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Articles-Autumn04/Ayad-Ellroy.html

'Dead Women Owned Me' ~ Survival, Guilt, and James Ellroy NEDDAL AYAD, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador A cheap Saturday night took you down. You died stupidly and harshly and without the means to hold your own life dear She was wearing a scoop-front, sleeveless, light and dark blue dress. A dark blue overcoat with a matching lining was spread over her lower body. Her feet and ankles were visible. Her right foot was bare. A nylon stocking was bunched up around her left ankle. and He examined the body and made the following observations: She was not wearing a slip, a girdle or panties. Her dress was pushed up above her hips. No panties and no shoes. That one stocking down her left ankle. Bruises and small lacerations on the insides of her thighs. An asphalt drag mark on her left hip. The detectives searched the immediate area. They did not find any of the missing articles of clothing. They could not locate any tire marks or drag marks. The ivy around the body did not appear to be trampled. A dispatch was made to the local radio stations: According to Mrs. Krycki, Jean Ellroy was a registered nurse. She had been divorced for several years. She lived with her son in a small bungalow that she rented from Mrs. Krycki and her husband. She and her ten-year-old son had been living there for approximately four months. The son spent weekdays with his mother and weekends with his father. The boy was with his father at the moment. She had spoken to Jean briefly Saturday night, but she did not discuss her plans for the evening. She stated that she had seen Jean drive off in her car, alone, at approximately 8:00 pm Saturday night. As far as she knew Jean was a private woman who did not have much of a social life. She kept men and alcohol to a minimum.

27. James Ellroy Interview Page james ellroy interviewed by Paul Duncan for Crime Time Magazine. http://www.crimetime.co.uk/interviews/ellroy03.html

28. Ellroy Every dog has his day and james ellroy is certainly having his. But he doesn’t wear an Ivy League stamp of approval – or frankly even that of a small town http://www.crimemagazine.com/CrimeBooks/ellroy.htm

HOME True Crime Organized Crime Celebrity Crime ... Search CM Crime Magazine Resources Attorneys Autobiographies Background Check Celebrity Crimes ... Surveillance Systems Looking for something else? Enter it here: Web CrimeMagazine Sign Up! To receive e-mail notices of Crime Magazine updates. Crime Books of Note: Crime Magazine's List of Favorite Books on Crime, Criminals, and Criminal Justice. By Author By Title By Category Amazon.com by Patrick Quinn Kansas City Star My Dark Places Wearing one of his trademark pineapple shirts, legs spread as if to brace himself for a physical struggle, Ellroy introduced himself with a stream of gaudy profanities and taboo sexual images in doggerel. Addressing his audience as "Hep cats," he howled like a coyote, frowned with menace and gestured dramatically. "These books are incendiary," he said reciting a list of his titles. "These books can cure AIDS and cancer. If you buy five copies of my books, you will be able to have unlimited sex with each and every person on this planet you choose every night of your life." He identified Barko, the hound in his familiar publicity photos, as the true author of his works, as well as the paramour of various celebrities and the assassin of John F. Kennedy,… Gurley went on to suggest the reading may have been "the most unusual event in Writer’s Place history," which says more about the venue than the performer. Dog was doing his old tricks that day. His shtick is well-known in the book world. Readers seem to like it because it furthers the notion that Ellroy’s dark, often horrific novels are the product of a dark and horrific person; many readers leave his readings with the feeling they’ve brushed against the Beast in the flesh. Publishers like it because it sells books – a lot of books. Dog likes it because he likes to bark, often literally. His phone messages usually end with "Woof-woof, Daddy-o."

29. James Ellroy A bibliography of james ellroy s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/james-ellroy/

Fantastic Fiction Authors E James Ellroy Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U James Ellroy Search Authors Search Books About James Ellroy James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, were international best-sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City. Series Lloyd Hopkins Blood On the Moon Because the Night Suicide Hill L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy (omnibus) L.A. Quartet

30. IBistro Montgomery County Dept. Of Public Libraries ellroy, james, 1948. 1 copy available at Rockville Library in LARGE-TYPE ellroy, james, 1948-. 2 copies available at Fairland Library and Longbranch http://webcat.montgomerylibrary.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=james el

31. James Ellroy: Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction - A Review Review of james ellroy Demon Dogy. From your source for information on documentaries, Documentary Films .Net. http://www.documentaryfilms.net/Reviews/JamesEllroyDemonDog/

Other Reviews Have Comments? M ade in 1993 with the help of grants from the Austrian Department of Education and Art, and the County of Upper Austria, this film received limited theatrical release in the U.S. five years later and subsequent video sales due to the popularity of the 1997 Hollywood release of "L.A. Confidential"—which not only made up-and-comers of stars Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce, but brought the man whose books inspired it to a deservedly larger circle of readers. James Ellroy updated the classic Raymond Chandler noir in the 1980s, first with a collection of thrillers about cops and serial killers (and serial killer cops!), then through a series of four related novels set in Los Angeles between 1947 and 1959, and informally known as "the LA quartet": The Black Dahlia The Big Nowhere LA Confidential , and White Jazz . Dark, gritty, violent, profane, and bewilderingly complicated, the books "are about obsession," Ellroy says. "I want to put as much densely packed social history into a series of novels as the farthest reaches of my brain and soul can encompass."

32. Borzoi Reader | Authors | James Ellroy On james ellroy s desktop you can find an audio reading by the author, a dramatis personae of characters in the novel, excerpts from a documentary on ellroy http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/ellroy/desktop.html

The Cold Six Thousand American Tabloid White Jazz Crime Wave Hollywood Nocturnes The Cold Six Thousand L.A. Confidential (audio) The Cold Six Thousand (audio) Listen to an excerpt. Crimetime Ellroy Interview about American Tabloid ... Article on The Pentagon Papers The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000 by Sally Denton and Roger Morris On James Ellroy's desktop you can find an audio reading by the author, a dramatis personae of characters in the novel, excerpts from a documentary on Ellroy by filmmaker Vikram Jayanti, and a timeline including some of the novel's fictional "documents." CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE DESKTOP

33. James Ellroy Books Reviews A detailed analysis of the plot, setting, characters, theme, and structure of his best books, and links to other novels with similar writing styles. http://www.allreaders.com/topics/Topic_972.asp

James Ellroy Read a book review online (click here to search reviews) Books Movies Sci-Fi/Fantasy ... History Author Ellroy's Book Reviews Message Board American Tabloid AMERICAN TABLOID, the first part of the Underworld U.S.A. trilogy has been published in 1995. Ellroy alternates three different points of view describing the 1958-1962 period. There's Kemper Boyd's, a FBI agent sent by Edgar G. Hoover into the Kennedy's family circle in order to get informations about the intentions of John and Robert Kennedy. Kemper Boyd becomes a fervent admirer of the new President and has some difficulties to reconcile his task fo... Because the Night In the second part of the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy, a year has passed since the events in BLOOD ON THE MOON. Two events precipitate the new case: the cold-blooded shooting of three people in a liquor store, and the disappearance of Jack Herzog, a 13-year veteran of the LAPD who is a master of disguise. Hopkins's nemesis in this book is John Havilland "Dr. John the Night Tripper" a brilliant psychiatrist with a tortured past who manipulates his patient... Blood on the Moon In 1964, a high school senior is beaten and raped by two of his bully classmates, and a 23-year-old National Guard private is called out to quell the Watts riots and ends up shooting a rogue cop. Eighteen years later, in 1982, their lives intersect: one has become a serial killer of young women and the other a career detective with the LAPD. This is the first of three Lloyd Hopkins novels from early in Ellroy's career: Hopkins is a womanizing cop with a ...

34. James Ellroy Quiz: Win A Signed Copy Of 'Crime Wave' - Quiz Open Untill June 30 The prize on offer is a signed copy of Crime Wave and runners up will get a Barcelona bookmarker also signed by james ellroy. You have until June 30th to http://www.barcelonareview.com/24/e_quiz_je.htm

issue 24: May - June 2001 excerpt from The Cold Six Thousand book review The James Ellroy Quiz Thirty questions to get you rooting around your Ellroy collections. The prize on offer is a signed copy of Crime Wave and runners up will get a Barcelona bookmarker also signed by James Ellroy. You have until June 30th to read The Cold Six Thousand in order to answer the few questions that appear. In case of a tie we will draw the winner out of a hat. The Prize: CRIME WAVE signed "To Barcelona Review Quiz Winner - Pit Bulls Bite Your Boogaloo" a. she wanted to be a movie star b. she wanted to get a job as a nurse c. she had won a beauty contest and the prize was a trip to L.A. 2. James Ellroy's real name is a. Lee Earle Ellroy b. Armand Earle Ellroy c. Lloyd Earle Ellroy d. Leroy Earle Ellroy 3. Ellroy's father gave him a book for his 11th birthday which left a strong impression. The book was a.

35. James Ellroy News - The New York Times News about james ellroy. Commentary and archival information about james ellroy from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/james_ellroy/index.

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page ... Times Topics Saturday, January 26, 2008 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... Autos document.write(''); Report An Error Times Topics People E > Ellroy, James E-MAIL Save James Ellroy News about James Ellroy, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ARTICLES ABOUT JAMES ELLROY Newest First Oldest First Page: By ANITA GATES The premise of this new show is a famous author devoting an hour to the real-life crime that fascinates him or her most. November 13, 2006 MORE ON JAMES ELLROY AND: REVIEWS MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS TELEVISION COURT TV ... The Mother Load By DEBORAH SOLOMON November 5, 2006 MORE ON JAMES ELLROY AND: TELEVISION BOOKS AND LITERATURE In a Noir Los Angeles, Murder Most Lurid By MANOHLA DARGIS September 15, 2006 MORE ON JAMES ELLROY AND: MOTION PICTURES HARTNETT, JOSH JOHANSSON, SCARLETT SWANK, HILARY ... The Mean Dahlia By RUTH ANDREW ELLENSON September 10, 2006 MORE ON JAMES ELLROY AND: MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS BOOKS AND LITERATURE By PAULA SCHWARTZ; WITH DAVID JAY LASKY IN LOS ANGELES

36. The Richmond Review, Feature Article, Demon Dog Central james ellroy resources at The Richmond Review and beyond. The Demon Dog A Quick Chat with james ellroy A Dog s Life in Kansas City by Scott Reder http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/features/ellroy.html

feature item WHAT'S NEW LIBRARY FEATURES REVIEWS ... features : Demon Dog Central Demon Dog Central James Ellroy resources at The Richmond Review and beyond Welcome to Demon Dog Central , the Main Place on the Web for info about the Main Dog of American Letters. Hop on board, hepcats: Stop One: "Call Me Dog" by Paul Duncan This major Ellroy retrospective and interview first appeared in Crime Time magazine . We're delighted to bring an expanded version to the Web of the best Ellroy article we've ever read - and rumour has it the Dog rates it likewise. Enjoy: The Early Years The LA Quartet Ripe Dog Stop Two: Since I Don't Have You by James Ellroy Yes, short shrift from the Demon Dog himself: Buzz Meeks, Howard Hughes, Mickey Cohen and Mickey Cohen's dog getting down and dirty in the Dog's home town. Stop Three: The Sub-Definitive Ellroy on Ellroy edited by Steven Kelly A big fat bunch of lovingly collated, highly rated Dogma - more skinny than you can shake a stick at. Stop Four: A Quick Chat with James Ellroy: A Dog's Life in Kansas City by Scott Reder The Dog interviewed by The Richmond Review's very own Kansas City Correspondent.

37. The Mother Load - New York Times james ellroy. If I could abolish one concept from the parlance, it would be closure A NIGHT OUT WITH james ellroy; The Mean Dahlia (September 10, 2006) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05wwln_q4.html

@import url(http://graphics.nytimes.com/css/common/screen/article.css); var google_hints = "Books+and+Literature,Television"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_magazine"; Skip to article Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now ... Times Topics Magazine All NYT Magazine World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... Autos var tcdacmd="sa=a;sz=2;ad"; Questions for James Ellroy The Mother Load Sign In to E-Mail This Print Save Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON Published: November 5, 2006 I see you’ll be the host of the first episode of te new Court TV series “Murder by the Book,” in which you explore a singularly distressing unsolved case – your mother’s homicide, which occurred when you were 10. What led you to return to the subject now? Skip to next paragraph Justin Stephens for The New York Times James Ellroy. If I could abolish one concept from the parlance, it would be closure. My mother and I continue. The force of her — the pure, feminine, complex, ambiguous, bereaved force of her — drives me to this day. It has been a decade since you recounted the story of her murder in “My Dark Places.” But she seems to haunt your other novels as well, including your current trilogy in progress on the pre-Reagan American underworld. What I like about the era I am writing about, meaning 1958 to 1972, is that the anti-Communism mandate justified virtually any kind of clandestine activity. I like exploring the mind-set of extreme expediency.

38. James Ellroy: Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction Trailer, Reviews And Schedule james ellroy Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction Trailer, Reviews, Schedule, Photos and james ellroy Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction Cast on http://www.tvguide.com/movies/james-ellroy-demon/133109

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39. Q&A With James Ellroy On National Review Online In a ceremony held recently in Los Angeles, novelist james ellroy was presented with the Los Angeles Police Historical Society s Jack Webb Award. http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200511150827.asp

cddcodebase = "/";cddcodebase454632 = "/"; HELP E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend ... Print Version November 15, 2005, 8:27 a.m. Ellroy Confidential A conversation with the Demon Dog of American letters. I n a ceremony held recently in Los Angeles, novelist James Ellroy was presented with the Los Angeles Police Historical Society's Jack Webb Award. Ellroy is the author of 16 books, including such bestsellers as The Cold Six Thousand American Tabloid , and L.A. Confidential . A film adaptation of his novel The Black Dahlia , directed by Brian De Palma, will be released in 2006. Ellroy recently spoke with NRO's Jack Dunphy about crime, cops, and conservatism. Jack Dunphy: What is the Jack Webb Award? James Ellroy: Jack Webb was of course the creator of the Dragnet television show and the television auteur of the 1950s. It was a felicitous meeting between Jack Webb and [then LAPD chief] William Parker that made Parker believe Webb could be exploited to put forth a positive image of the LAPD. Except for Parker himself, Jack Webb was the man most responsible for bringing this positive image to the world at large. The LAPD Historical Society honors civilians, often in the arts, sometimes in politics, who have served to advance the gloriously deserved positive image of the Los Angeles Police Department. As a writer heavily influenced by Jack Webb, particularly his 1958 book The Badge , which turned my life around, I'm honored to be one of this year's honorees.

40. The BEATRICE Interview: 1995 This is the world of james ellroy s new novel, American Tabloid, a world where just about everybody s working two or more different angles. http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/ellroy/

James Ellroy Noir is a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go." interviewed by Ron Hogan He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History. Interviewed again in '96! Dig it: Howard Hughes holed up in a hotel suite, strung out on heroin and receiving daily blood transfusions. James Riddle Hoffa at war with the Kennedys. Jack Kennedy ready to jump on anything in a skirt. Sam Giancana and Carlos Marcello scheming to get back the casinos in Havana. Jack Ruby in over his head with some bad, bad men. J. Edgar Hoover sitting in the shadows, watching over everything, listening in through the wiretaps. This is the world of James Ellroy's new novel, American Tabloid , a world where just about everybody's working two or more different angles. There's Pete Bondurant: disgraced LA County Sheriff, errand boy for Hughes, and private investigator specializing in getting dirt for divorce cases. He ends up taking on side jobs for Hoffa that lead to contract work with the CIA, organizing the Cuban exiles in Miami. There's Ward Littell, alcoholic FBI agent: sick of harassing pathetic, ineffective Communists, he itches to take on the Mob, but his rash decisions have violent repercussions. And Kemper Boyd: G-man who hustles his way into the Kennedy brothers' inner circle, and liaison between the Mob and the Company. Since the publication of The Black Dahlia in 1987, James Ellroy's star has been rapidly climbing. Each subsequent novel in the LA Quartet (

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