james ellroy

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

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I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

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Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

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