James Ellroy walked onstage Saturday in teal slacks, a bubble-gum pink button-up and white Converse sneakers, motioning for the L.A. Times Festival of Books audience to keep up its roar of applause ...

Freddy Otash, the human train wreck at the heart of James Ellroy’s new novel, “Widespread Panic,” has a confession to make. Many confessions, actually. At least that’s how Ellroy, the dean of Los ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh, and you're listening to These Days on KPBS. Many readers got to know the work of writer James Ellroy through his L.A. Quartet, a series of crime novels ...

James Ellroy is returning to the scene of the crime his greatest literary success, the 1940s, in a new four-book series. Ellroy’s agency Sobel-Weber has the news: The lead title is “Perfidia” and is ...

Everything that happens in a James Ellroy novel happens right now. Short, compact sentences hit in machine gun bursts. The immediacy of the writing registers more as an experience than a description ...

Ellroy launches his second L.A. Quartet with a sprawling, uncompromising epic of crime and depravity, with admirable characters few and far between. The action spans about three weeks during December ...

Clad in a blue plaid suit and bow tie, his bald pate nearly scraping the ceiling, whippet-thin crime novelist James Ellroy is launching into a kind of white-man’s rap. “Good evening, peepers, prowlers ...

It's not too hard to guess that this Spanish abode in Bronson Canyon might be the home of Los Angeles noir novelist James Ellroy—many of the books in the photos appear to be his own titles, and ...

Fans of the crime novelist have drawn attention to similarities in storylines by James Ellroy and True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto CONTAINS SPOILERS Whodunit to whowroteit: True Detective's second ...