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Red Sheet Tour Announced!!!!!!
Red Sheet is an anti-communist novel. It stands foursquare in the tainted tradition of Ayn Rand and Mickey Spillane. Ellroy is out to scramble your long-held perceptions and force you into a state of jumped-up disavowal.
Red Sheet scorns the mock-martyred Hollywood Ten and ballyhoos the Blacklist and the ’47-’48 HUAC hearings. Red Sheet forces you to live within the twisted and oddly tender soul of Richard M. Nixon. Red Sheet spotlights the Spanish Civil War and atrocities committed by the commie-infested International Brigade, heretofore held as heroic. Red Sheet lionizes name-naming kingpin Whittaker Chambers and bestows kudos on ratfinks Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg.
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The Greatest Crime Novels of All Time!!!!!
Experts polled by Le Nouvel Observateur, France's leading weekly magazine, vote the L.A. Quartet -- THE BLACK DAHLIA, THE BIG NOWHERE, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, WHITE JAZZ -- the greatest crime novels of all time!!!!!
NEW ELLROY DOC FROM ITALY!!!!! Ellroy vs. L.A.
“A dark journey into the mind of noir master James Ellroy. Through an exclusive interview and archival materials, the documentary intertwines his personal and artistic story with his unique vision of Los Angeles: the city where he was born, source of his traumas and an endless reservoir of events, crimes, and characters that became the foundation of his literary masterpieces. Ellroy’s rhythmic, jazz-inflected narration alternates with the sounds of the legendary Italian band Calibro 35.” — The Film Stage
ELLROY IN SPAIN FOR THE ENCHANTERS!!!!!
HAY Festival, Sevilla: February 13-15
Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid: February 17
ELLROY ENCORE IN FRANCE!!!!!
Quais du Polar, Lyon: April 4-6
Espace Motoco, Mulhouse: April 9 @8 pm
Cinéma Le Cosmos, Strasbourg: April 10 @6 pm
Festival du Livre de Paris, Grand Palais: April 11-13
Le Festival America
Saturday, September 28th
Book Signing. Salon du Livre (Hôtel de Ville) | 11am - 12pm.
James Ellroy Masterclass | 12:30pm - 1:30pm
L'œuvre au noir du "DOG" | 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Book Signing. Salon du Livre (Cours Marigny) with Shakespeare & Co. | 5:30pm - 6:30pm.
America Night: Book Signing. Salon du Livre (Cours Marigny) | 7pm - 8:30pm.
Sunday, September 29th
Book Signing. Salon du Livre (Cours Marigny) | 11am - 12pm.
James Ellroy's America | 2pm - 3pm
Book Signing. Salon du Livre (Cours Marigny) | 3pm to 4pm.
ELLROY IN FRANCE FOR THE ENCHANTERS!!!!!
SEPT 23rd to OCT 6th
NEW EVENT ADDED!!!!!
Wednesday, September 25. 7 p.m. Transfuge Awards. Librairie Delamain. 155, rue Saint-Honoré. Paris 75001.
The Enchanters is one of NPR's Best Books of 2023
NPR's curated list of the "Best Books of 2023" includes, The Enchanters.
The review (link) concluded:
Marilyn Monroe's death has achieved myth status, and Ellroy's take on it is at once a superb crime novel about the city he's always written about, a love letter to a very different time, and a narrative that ensures the Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned along [with] the novels in The L.A. Quartet and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy as some of Ellroy's best work.