My guest today has been called americas greatest living crime writer. In his la quartet and many other novels, james ellroy has painted a uniquely dark portrait of this city of angels, a nightmare world of psychotic killers, corrupt cops and depraved appetites. Ellroy writes of what he knows, his own mother was murdered when he was a child. And is that simple, terrible fact the key to understanding all the words hes ever written . James ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. Hey, boss, whats shaking . We are going to talk about 35 years of Novel Writing and of your books has been set in and around los angeles. Absolutely untrue right off the bat, bam. Ive wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazines novel of the year year in 1995. The cold six thousand and bloods a rover are set outside la. Right, but Southern California is your world. Im from there and its where i go when women divorce me. I suppose what im getting at is whether youve ever been
My guest today has been called americas greatest living crime writer. In his la quartet and many other novels, james ellroy has painted a uniquely dark portrait of this city of angels, a nightmare world of psychotic killers, corrupt cops and depraved appetites. Ellroy writes of what he knows, his own mother was murdered when he was a child. And is that simple, terrible fact the key to understanding all the words hes ever written . James ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. Hey, boss, whats shaking . We are going to talk about 35 years of Novel Writing and of your books has been set in and around los angeles. Absolutely untrue right off the bat, bam. Ive wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazines novel of the year year in 1995. The cold six thousand and bloods a rover are set outside la. Right, but Southern California is your world. Im from there and its where i go when women divorce me. I suppose what im getting at is whether youve ever been
My guest today has been called americas greatest living crime writer. In his la quartet and many other novels, james ellroy has painted a uniquely dark portrait of this city of angels, a nightmare world of psychotic killers, corrupt cops and depraved appetites. Ellroy writes of what he knows, his own mother was murdered when he was a child. And is that simple, terrible fact the key to understanding all the words hes ever written . James ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. Hey, boss, whats shaking . We are going to talk about 35 years of Novel Writing and of your books has been set in and around los angeles. Absolutely untrue right off the bat, bam. Ive wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazines novel of the year year in 1995. The cold six thousand and bloods a rover are set outside la. Right, but Southern California is your world. Im from there and its where i go when women divorce me. I suppose what im getting at is whether youve ever been
Is deepening this hour. It all began when a minister in president erdogans government was blocked from addressing a rally in rotterdam. That prompted mr erdogan to describe the dutch government, led by mark rutte, as nazi remna nts. A second Turkish Minister has now been stopped from entering the netherlands, and in ankara, the dutch ambassador has been told he isnt welcome. Mark lowen reports. They love his nationalism, his bluntness, his standing up to the west, and today Recep Tayyip Erdogan doled it out. After his Foreign Minister was blocked from landing in the netherlands, president erdogan hit back at the dutch, his diplomacy typically undiplomatic. Translation they dont know anything about politics or international diplomacy. They are very nervous and cowards. They are nazi remnants, they are fascists. The Foreign Minister had wanted to rally turkish voters in the netherlands before a referendum on boosting mr erdogans powers. But with the dutch election next week, the governme
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. As you know, u. S. Air strikes have started within syria, and president obama will chair a meeting this week with the United Nations Security Council to urge further International Response to combatting the growing threat of terrorism. Joining me to discuss the u. S. Options is samuel r. Berger, known to most of us as sandy berger, former National Security adviser to president clinton. He is also cochair of the Senior Working Group on the middle east at the u. S. Institute of peace. He joins us now from new york city. Sandy berger, good have to you back on this program, sir. Good to be here. So the air strikes began last night. What do you make of it . Well, i think its quite a bold move. Its quite extraordinary. The president has been able to assemble the coalition that he talked about. Five arab states flew with the United States last night. Some of those countries dont really speak to each other. So the fact