James Ellroy Author, 62Holly Williams
Best introduction to Ellroy’s unique styleMany of James Ellroy’s books are parts of trilogies or quartets that are difficult to enter if you haven’t started at the first。 Not this one, which, while it features a character that appears in some of his other books, stands alone in this...
Other media: Pines is the first in Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy, and these books are the basis of the 2015 television series, Wayward Pines, produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, and Juliette Lewis Additional thoughts: In the afterword of Pines, Bl...
With as much drawn from the oeuvre of James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler and from the style of Mario Bava as from more conventional iterations of the slasher, Ti West continues trying to demonstrate his artistic chops throughout the film. “I’m an artist,” Elizabeth Bender says. “This isn...
My secret life: James Ellroy, author, 62The Independent
Author James Ellroy unleashes the second opus in his historical trilogy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)Eberhart, John Mark
WRITER James Ellroy speaks the way most of us speak - in simple declarative sentences (subject-verb-object) fashioned from simple Anglo-Saxon words.But Ellroy also writes that way, at book length. His black-and-white prose takes no detours through clauses; it never stops to smell the ...
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