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 ...

PERFIDIA. By James Ellroy. Knopf. 701 pages. $34. James Ellroy’s new novel “Perfidia” begins on Dec. 6, 1941, in Los Angeles, the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Ellroy’s familiar staccato ...

Novelist James Ellroy meets KPCC's John Rabe in a jail cell to talk his new novel, "Perfidia," set in L.A. in the weeks around the beginning of the internment of Japanese-Americans. Off-Ramp host John ...

The time frame allows Ellroy to bring back literally dozens of characters, major and minor, from the earlier novels. Many of them, we already know, will come to bad ends as their fictional futures ...

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 ...

This glorious, brutal, sprawling new novel — 700 pages and zillions of characters — is the first of four planned LA-based tomes that, together with his earlier LA Quartet and his Underworld USA ...

Many people know James Ellroy because of the films adapted from his books (especially the 1997's Oscar-winner L.A. Confidential), but Ellroy has been among America's most acclaimed crime novelists for ...

There has never been a writer like James Ellroy. Since the Eighties, in novels such as LA Confidential and The Cold Six Thousand, he has been making real a secret world behind the official history of ...