The author talks about his work, his youth, his solitude and his 14th novel, a World War II tale: "It's more accessible, more human and has more heart and soul than all of my other books combined" By ...

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 ...

A little bit of James Ellroy can be a lot: the hepcat tough guy lingo, the contortionist plotting, the headfirst plummet into seedy sex, scandal and nihilism. His novels, mostly set in a bygone Los ...

There are a lot of reasons not to read James Ellroy's newest novel, Perfidia — the opening shot in his proposed second L.A. Quartet. It's a long and sprawling book with about a million pages and ...

James Ellroy, the author of L.A. Confidential, made an appearance at the L.A. Times Festival of Books where he talked about the film adaptation of his book. “People love the movie L.A. Confidential,” ...

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 ...

I wasn't going to get sucked back in. There was a time when I would have argued for James Ellroy as one of America's great writers. I still think that's true, but sometimes there's an inherent ...

Podcasting has reached such a state of saturation now that even those who’ve never heard a podcast before are starting their own. Which, in the case of fans of any of the 25 books by 74-year-old ...

8:54 a.m. June 10, 2021An earlier version of this story mis-identified Lana Turner as Veronica Lake in reference to a scene in the movie “L.A. Confidential.” In real life, Otash was a corrupt L.A. cop ...

The Los Angeles Times today announced the finalists and honorees for the 43rd annual Book Prizes. James Ellroy will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement and the American Library ...