James Ellroy

Novelist

air date: Jan 5, 2015

James Ellroy is an author known for his noir-style crime fiction, primarily set in Los Angeles. Some of his past works have been adapted into Hollywood successes including the Academy Award-winning “L.A. Confidential” and “The Black Dahlia.” His novel “Perfidia” is set in Los Angeles during World War II, as Japanese internment camps began forming.

• Full Episode
• Narrative wiggle room
• The grand design
• A good culture to deny
• The Ellroy persona
• Writing the 'Big Book'
• Audience Q&A

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