One of my favorite contemporary authors gets a nice treatment from the Guardian in this interview with another author named David Peace. Seems Peace writes similar stuff, historical fiction and I will need to check him out.
I did get to meet Mr. Ellroy way back in 2001 at Book People for the middle book of this trilogy. Despite all the Right Wing chest-thumping he does in public, I feel he does it for attention because he told the Austin crowd that Martin Luther King was one of his heroes. One of his ex-wives seems to agree.
Fingers crossed he comes to Austin again. A reading from Mr. Ellroy is amusing. He recites from his books as if it were beatnik poetry peppered with profanity. Maybe when he passes on, somebody can give his Secret History of America novels a proper miniseries on HBO/Showtime. I’m realistic that there will never be another Peter Jackson-esque success in my lifetime. I would like to be proven wrong on such a matter.
Meanwhile, I scored a used hardback of the novel which started this series, American Tabloid for under 20 clams and it’s in great shape, according to the seller.