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We litigate therefore we are: Ellroy and Condi Nast may have to suck fur; drummed out of U.S., rock legend Ginger Baker will solo polo in South Africa; and (not again!) the Freemasons are cookin' up a world-domination scheme!
Ellroy, the man with the obsidian soul and the polychrome brain, showed up in ... In the story, Ellroy has Teitelbaum indulging in bad behavior, such as posing " ...
By Douglas Cruickshank
Saturday, June 5, 1999
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With his latest tale of epic conspiracy and evil, Ellroy takes crime fiction as far as it can go -- and maybe even farther.
Ellroy once called himself "the greatest crime novelist who ever lived," and ... And Ellroy's style is what Ellroy is about, not the bloodless ...
By Allen Barra
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
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Charles Taylor reviews James Ellroy's memoir "My Dark Places".
Ellroy writes in ridiculously rat-a-tat prose ("The Ellroy case was stalled out. ... Although Ellroy claims his attempts to solve his mother's murder (with the help ...
By Charles Taylor
Monday, November 4, 1996
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Laura Miller interviews James Ellroy, Salon's 1996 Best Books of the Year Winner
Laura Miller interviews James Ellroy, Salon's 1996 Best Books of the Year Winner ... For over 15 years, Ellroy has been writing crime novels set in 1950s ...
By Laura Miller
Monday, December 9, 1996
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Film critic-turned-crime writer Helen Knode on her first novel, the soul-crushing deadness of Hollywood, the greatness of "Titanic" and her relationship with husband James Ellroy.
In 1991, Helen married crime writer James Ellroy and quit the Weekly. ... Then I met James [Ellroy], whose work I did not know when I met him, and he was telling all the unhappy ...
By Barbara O'Dair
Wednesday, April 2, 2003
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The author of "One Woman Short" and "Hip Hop America" picks five great urban books.
White Jazz by James Ellroy. Simultaneously standing on the structures ... In this, his most experimental book, Ellroy makes the connections between City Hall ...
By Nelson George
Monday, May 22, 2000
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"The Cold Six Thousand" by James Ellroy. With his latest tale of epic conspiracy and evil, Ellroy takes crime fiction as far as it can go -- and maybe even farther. ...
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How Dashiell Hammett's first and most important novel eluded film adaptation and still managed to find its way onto the big -- and small -- screen.
James Ellroy stated a desire to do a "Red Harvest" script, but today, 76 years after the novel's publication, there is still no film of "Red Harvest." Why? ...
By Allen Barra
Monday, February 28, 2005
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Prestige pulp offers jaded readers cheap wine in fancy bottles
The President Obama we voted for. Remember the illegal destruction of ... haute-genre writers like James Ellroy ("American Tabloid") and Thomas Harris ...
By Laura Miller
Monday, August 19, 1996
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A sneak peek at the forthcoming "Lord of the Rings" film, a fat gambler in a Jaguar and more
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy. With his latest tale of epic conspiracy and evil, Ellroy takes crime fiction as far as it can go -- and maybe even farther. ...
Monday, November 19, 2001
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The extras present Los Angeles in all its glittering, sometimes-shady glory, a mythical land of movies, sun and sand.
Adapted from James Ellroy's wicked take on Los Angeles' history, it's also informed by the kind of Angeleno apocalypse Mike Davis brought to life ...
By Max Garrone
Friday, November 3, 2000
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Yes, detective novels are lousy -- if you're too lazy to search out the good ones! Mystery readers (and quite a few mystery writers) strike back at Ben Yagoda.
So by omission, Yagoda lumps Ellroy, Mosley and Higgins in with Robert Parker and Michael Connelly? Come on. As we've seen with our current administration, ...
Thursday, January 8, 2004
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A hard-boiled fantasia from Neil Gaiman, a smart, sexy new frolic from David Lodge, tales from country music maestro Steve Earle and more
What to read: The best of June fiction. A hard-boiled fantasia from Neil Gaiman, a smart, ... of Richard Yates" and James Ellroy's latest magnum opus of crime ...
By Salon's critics
Friday, June 22, 2001
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Ex-con and man of letters Edward Bunker discusses his new memoir, "Education of a Felon," and life as an upstanding citizen.
Unlike his great friend James Ellroy who "makes everything up," Bunker says he makes nothing up: "It's all taken from memory or experience or someone else's stories. ...
By Stephen Lemons
Monday, April 24, 2000
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A closer look at the words of Obama, Depeche Mode and U2. Plus: Why do straight actresses ... Plus: Is James Ellroy snubbing L.A.? By Jenn Shreve December 10, 1999 ...
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Salon's TV picks forMonday, June 21, 1999
Jenny Craig ends ad campaign after lawsuit. The autism-vaccine lie that won't die. Welcome, ... Conan O'Brien (NBC) Dave Chappelle, James Ellroy (rerun) ...
By Joyce Millman
Monday, June 21, 1999
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Sex on dirty carpets, betrayal, decapitation, spirit possession, mega-money and a defendant they're calling the "Black Widow." Can Las Vegas' latest lurid trial be good for its image? You bet.
( The two combined have -- for years now -- kept crime journalists immersed in plots worthy of Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy or Tony Soprano. ...
By Douglas Cruickshank
Thursday, March 29, 2001
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The men behind the ballsy "Fight Club" talk about anti-consumerism, annoying boomerisms and how to make soap out of human fat.
He won me over when he was asked whether he thought Ellroy was from another planet. " Yes, he's from another planet," said Fincher, "but in a great way. ...
By Michael Sragow
Thursday, October 14, 1999
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Hilary Swank has the face, and the swagger, to play Amelia Earhart. So why does this ambitious biopic stall ... to breathe life into James Ellroy's tale of a notoriously grisly ...
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And other information you don't need, but the Times of London insists on giving you.
Thursday, Jul 1, 1999 09:00 EDT. Flash: Bond bandit bites baguette! ... meets James Ellroy -- it took three journalists to put together the nicely ...
By Douglas Cruickshank
Thursday, July 1, 1999
