my guest today has been called america s 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. the rights of what he knows, his own mother was murdered when he was a child. and it is that simple terrible fact the key to understanding all the words he s ever written? james ellroy, welcome to heart block hardtalk. hey, boss, what s shaking? i have but i came back. i made a conscious decision with my new novel to craft a second la quartet, taking characters from the initial la quartet, said in a lay between 1946 and 1958, and initial la quartet, said in a lay between 1916 and 1958, and the aforementioned underworld usa trilogy, three novels set in america at large between 58 and 72. characters from those two bodies of work and place them in los angeles during world war two as significantly younger people so i ma
my guest today has been called america s 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 he s ever written? james ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. hey, boss, what s 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. i ve wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazine s novel of the year year in 1995. the cold six thousand and blood s a rover are set outside la. right, but southern california is your world. i m from there and it s where i go when women divorce me. i suppose what i m getting at is whethe
my guest today has been called america s 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 he s ever written? james ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. hey, boss, what s 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. i ve wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazine s novel of the year year in 1995. the cold six thousand and blood s a rover are set outside la. right, but southern california is your world. i m from there and it s where i go when women divorce me. i suppose what i m getting at is wheth