Because he writes books laced with profanity and graphic descriptions of violence, James Ellroy isn’t a writer to everyone’s taste. He is nonetheless the most intellectually ambitious writer of crime ...

James Franco has clamed he is set to adapt James Ellroy's American Tabloid. The 1995 novel from the LA Confidential author is a fictionalised account of five years in the lives of three men involved ...

The meanest shitheel in American letters, Ellroy whet his pen on bare-knuckle noir sleaze-o-ramas like L.A. Confidential, then decided that the entirety of U.S. history was crime fiction. Slicing his ...

Though it has been attached previously to the likes of Bruce Willis and Tom Hanks (who most recently worked to develop it as a series for HBO), the 1995 novel American Tabloid is now in the hands of ...

NEW YORK — Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin, via their Cheyenne Enterprises shingle, are negotiating with HBO to make a miniseries from James Ellroy’s novels “The Cold Six Thousand” and “American ...

There are not many stories left buried in James Ellroy’s past. In 1996, at the age of 48, he penned his memoirs, in which he paired his life story with that of his dead mother, Jean Ellroy, a nurse ...

Podcasting has reached such a state of saturation now that even those who’ve never heard a podcast before are starting their own. Which, in the case of fans of any of the 25 books by 74-year-old ...