James Ellroy

NYR: Fever Dreams of Your FBI

The New York Review of Books | Norman Rush | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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Norman Rush The New York Review of Books Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy Knopf, 640 pp., $28.95 1. James Ellroy's astonishing creation, the Underwo...

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The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion

Kevin Smokler | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

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Kevin Smokler

Never mind TST would watch Lynn Freed read the back of a soup can. Give her 10 minutes and she'd have that soup can speaking Dutch and flirting with a bag of soda crackers. Simply one of the classiest acts in contemporary literature. Makes you feel smarter just hanging around.

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Writers Are Assholes

Dennis Perrin | Posted 09.20.2008 | Entertainment

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Dennis Perrin

There are few hells more tormenting than hanging with other writers. We are an insecure, egocentric, petty, envious breed who enjoy spreading pain, hoping to maximize it for ourselves.

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