“People love the movie ‘L.A. Confidential,’” Ellroy said. “I think it’s turkey of the highest form. I think Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger are impotent. The director died, so now I can disparage the ...

The outspoken crime novelist talks about his provocative new book, his hatred of technology and why the film adaptation of LA Confidential is a ‘turkey’ James Ellroy does not own a computer, his ...

Best known for The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, and his memoir, My Dark Places, LA Author James Ellroy is a giant of American crime fiction. His last book, The ...

The meanest shitheel in American letters, Ellroy whet his pen on bare-knuckle noir sleaze-o-ramas like L.A. Confidential, then decided that the entirety of U.S. history was crime fiction. Slicing his ...