Re: RARA-AVIS: More Blurbs
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:36:35 -0500 (EST)
After a screening of the documentary about Ellroy, the author
stood
around and talked with a few of us for about an hour (until
time to
introduce the next screening). Someone asked why he wrote only
one PI
novel. Ellroy replied something like, The whole genre is
inherently
corrupt, then referred to an 87th Precinct novel where one of
the cops
says,You know the last time a private detective solved a murder
case?
Never.
So I asked, if that's the case, why does he blurb so many PI
books. He
responded, I owe a lot of favors.
Mark
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