James Ellroy
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A book about Bob Marley, told by everyone but Bob Marley – in the vein of Gay Talese or James Ellroy, Marlon James’s Booker winner brings in a dozen competing voices
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The death of wannabe starlet Elizabeth Short became entwined in Ellroy’s mind with the murder of his mother – and inspired his bestselling novel
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The latest instalment of the writer’s blood-soaked alternative history
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With a new volume due in his second LA Quartet, it’s a good time to read this justly self-declared master of fiction. But which book?
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From Joan Didion to James Ellroy, novelist and director Wayne Holloway picks his favourite writing about California’s dream factory
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From The Godfather to LA Confidential, these are some of the most compulsive tales of men who live and die in the mob
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As well as masterful exercises in suspense and social realism, the best fiction in this genre is also a rich repository of slang. And that’s no Archbishop Laud
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Film blog Curtis Hanson: a thrilling film-maker and effective exponent of mainstream Hollywood style
Hanson got Meryl Streep whitewater rafting, Eminem to act and brought James Ellroy’s cult novel LA Confidential brilliantly to life on film -
Hanson, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of the James Ellroy novel, also directed Wonder Boys and River Wild
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The worthy titles people display at home are often unread, while private passions – from Dan Brown to Christian Grey – are shuffled swiftly off to Oxfam
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