Conversations with James Ellroy

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Conversations with James Ellroy Literary Conversations Series Peggy Whitman Prenshaw General Editor This page intentionally left blank Conversations with James Ellroy Edited by Steven Powell University Press of Mississippi Jackson To my father, Thomas Raymond Powell www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2012 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2012 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ellroy, James, 1948– Conversations with James Ellroy / edited by Steven Powell. p. cm. — (Literary conversations series) ISBN 978-1-61703-103-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61703-104-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61703-105-2 (ebook) 1. Ellroy, James, 1948–—Interviews. 2. Authors, American —20th century—Interviews. I. Powell, Steven, 1983– II. Title. PS3555.L6274Z46 2012 813’.54—dc22 [B] 2011021821 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available v Books by James Ellroy Brown’s Requiem. New York: Avon Books, 1981. Clandestine. New York: Avon, 1982. Blood on the Moon. New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. Because the Night. New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. Suicide Hill. New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. Killer on the Road. New York: Avon, 1986; originally published as Silent Terror. The Black Dahlia. New York: Mysterious Press, 1987. The Big Nowhere. New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. L.A. Confidential. New York: Mysterious Press, 1990. White Jazz. New York: Knopf, 1992. Hollywood Nocturnes. New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1994. American Tabloid. New York: Knopf, 1995. My Dark Places. New York: Knopf, 1996. L.A. Noir. New York: Mysterious Press, 1998. The Dudley Smith Trio: The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz. Arrow: London, 1999. Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 2001. Breakneck Pace. Contentville Press, 2001. The Best American Mystery Stories 2002. Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Destination Morgue! L.A. Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 2004. The Best American Crime Writing 2005. Harper Perennial, 2005. Blood’s a Rover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Editor (with Otto Penzler), The Best American Noir of the Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. This page intentionally left blank ...