Re: RARA-AVIS: Ellroy, Chandler & DeLillo

Mari Hall (found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:12:59 -0500 Frederick Zackel wrote:
>
> Aloha, y'all--

Does this mean you are in Hawaii--it's 97 degrees in Texas today.
>
> His ego is remarkably large.

Yes, you can't have ever met Elroy without learning about his "ego" but
he has never been anything but nice to me since I always have books for
him to sign.

> Sue Grafton (rara-viis' most favorite femme fatale)

"imagined" a world of his one that we can buy into and accept (or at
least suspend our disblief.)

Speak for thyself--this is one person who never walked a "mean street"
and I simply can't "suspend disbelief" any more. Too many books, too
little time to read the same story again and again.

In Farewell, My Lovely, he writes about the 77th division of the LAPD

You might like the Wendy Hornsby book "77th Street Requim".

> Ellroy keeps raising his sights. Pretty soon the Sistine Chapel will have Ellroy reaching down to Adam...

Amen to that

from Mari Hall found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net
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