James Ellroy doesn’t mince words regarding “L.A. Confidential,” the 1997 film adaptation of his fiction-crime novel of the same name. Speaking at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on ...

James Ellroy is making a renewed Hollywood push. The L.A. Confidential author has signed with UTA, which is already taking his latest novel, The Enchanters, out to producers. The news comes on the ...

James Ellroy, the author of "L.A. Confidential" and over a dozen other novels, is out with a new book "The Enchanters." The story focuses on a private investigator looking into the death of Marilyn ...

“The Enchanters.” By James Ellroy. Alfred A. Knopf. Los Angeles, 1962. Marilyn Monroe has just killed herself. Another movie star is kidnapped. A sex fiend is sneaking into women’s houses. The police ...

The meanest shitheel in American letters, Ellroy whet his pen on bare-knuckle noir sleaze-o-ramas like L.A. Confidential, then decided that the entirety of U.S. history was crime fiction. Slicing his ...

There are some movies that no matter what format they’re available in or what platform they’re streaming on, I have to revisit from time to time. As 1997’s L.A. Confidential was recently added as part ...

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels--*The Black Dahlia*, *The Big Nowhere*, *L.A. Confidential*, and *White Jazz*--were international best sellers. His novel ...