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What I’ve created in Blood’s a Rover is the private infrastructure of great public events. The over arching spiritual figure of this book is dead before the book begins - it’s Martin Luther King - arguably the greatest 20th Century American. Two of the three protagonists were involved in his assassination and cannot live with it. I love re-writing American history to my own specifications.
James Ellroy, on his Underworld USA trilogy (American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood’s a Rover), from an interview with Kurt Andersen of Studio 360. Andersen’s as smarmy and condescending as ever, but Ellroy turns in a bravura performance (especially the bit where he admits that he loves racist invective(!)) Listen to the rest of the interview. Then go buy (or borrow) the book. It’s long (the series of books), but worth your time.Posted on October 26, 2009
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