It was the jail of six-man cells and two stupid white guys, two stupid black guys and two stupid Mexican guys lying about their daring criminal exploits and their movie-star girlfriends. But there’s a particular aspect of my youth that has become distorted by repetition: like g oing to jail. Hasn’t your mother’s murder always been central? Yeah, it formed my mental curriculum. It didn’t say he’d eh eh eh but it did say that he was her business manager between about 1948 and ’52.Ĭould any of your self-mythologizing stand to be deflated? The more I look at my own life, the more I realize that traumatic influences have played a part in it.
My early life was horrible privation living with the unhousebroken dog and my dad 3 telling me, “I Rita Hayworth.” I passed that off as, and then 10 years after my dad died I saw a Hayworth biography in a bookstore and looked his name up in the index. I’ve been writing a book for a couple of years, and then they slip the chain off and I can run wild. Is that shtick 2 about concealing anything? A lot of it is being the pit bull staked by chain to a spike in the front yard. O.K., I know you like to do shtick in public. It is an ultimate argument of individuality, an argument that a man can create his own synthesis of time without being bound by the conformities that time imposes.” That says it all. it presents to us an example of the man who makes richer his own time for not being of it, who speaks for all generations by being of none. “The great thing about the music of Richard Strauss is that. This is the great pianist Glenn Gould on the great composer Richard Strauss. Are you missing out on something important by not living more deeply in the times in which you live? I have a quotation here. “The reflex kicks in,” Ellroy said, and it tells him: “You’ve got more work to do.”Īlmost all your books are set in the past, 1 and I know that you’re intentionally disconnected from modern culture. In the 71-year-old’s opinion, he has reached a new peak with his latest, “This Storm.” But he’s not taking that as an invitation to coast. Confidential” chief among them - constitute a singularly intense body of work.
Ellroy’s morally complex, baroquely plotted, sprawling and highly stylized novels - “The Black Dahlia” and “L.A.
You’re the greatest crime writer that ever lived.’” A comment like that might be insufferable if it weren’t delivered, as it was by Ellroy, with a grin and if it didn’t also have a plausible claim on the truth. “I’ve had precious few moments,” admitted the novelist James Ellroy, “where I’ve said to myself: ‘Ellroy, you are the king.
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