“I Don’t Live in the World”: An Interview With James Ellroy

The crime writer opens up about his mother’s murder, his love of dogs, and his new novel, This Storm. Just don’t ask him about Donald Trump.

Eric Spitznagel
GEN
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11 min readJun 13, 2019

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InIn one of the opening scenes of the 2001 BBC documentary Feast of Death, James Ellroy tells a story about his encounter with an…

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Eric Spitznagel
GEN
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I’m a freelance journalist, author of 10+ books, and the Executive Editor of The Arrow, a digital newsletter from AARP created by and for Gen-X men.