Ellroycast #4: Elizabeth Short (with Joan Renner)
Los Angeles crime historian and co-editor of LAPD ’53 joins us to talk about Elizabeth…
Ellroycast #3: The Black Dahlia with Zoë Z. Dean
Further reading: our interview with Zoë herself.
Ellroycast #2: the Public Intellectual
Introducing: the Ellroycast
The debut episode of a podcast about all things James Ellroy, featuring Son of Griff and…
Schlemiels in Paradise: Son of Griff on IT’S A GIFT
Back in the ’80s, whenever an older person went off on how wholesome movies were…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
A number of movies have changed my views on life, but The Good, the Bad,…
A Flaw in the Iris: Son of Griff on CHINATOWN’s Hard-Boiled Historicism
Los Angeles is the most beautiful city in the world, when seen at night from…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Blood’s a Rover
“All literature created out of a conscious political aim in the long run creates weakness…
Hold for Probable Nightmares: Son of Griff and wallflower Talk About James Ellroy’s THIS STORM
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/25/1940. New English Weekly, review of The Thirties, authored by ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Murder by Contract
At the beginning of 1958’s Murder by Contract, we know only two things about Vince…