{"id":2106,"date":"2014-09-04T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2014-09-04T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T00:34:14","slug":"james-ellroy-the-demon-dog-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/09\/james-ellroy-the-demon-dog-is-back.html","title":{"rendered":"James Ellroy: The Demon Dog is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;J9S6BFoEKctFIUF9sCOFryBh5uvOWyC0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>AFTER completing his Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy and writing a memoir about his often tortured relationships with women, crime writer James Ellroy is back with a new quartet of novels that will serve as a prequel to his Los Angeles Quartet &#8212; the four great novels that include <em>L.A. Confidential<\/em>.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jpeg-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"jpeg\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jpeg-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jpeg.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I hung out with Ellroy at the downtown Pacific Dining Car while he double-fisted coffee, got his car detailed, and talked about the first of the series &#8212; the 700-page <em>Perfidia<\/em>. It includes characters from his earlier novels and documents the hedonistic and fearful weeks that followed the Pearl Harbor bombings. Despite the amped-up tone of the book, on the day I saw the author he was relatively sedate, neither cursing a blue streak nor barking like a dog. (He <em>was<\/em> surprised &#8212; he&#8217;s a guy who writes his work longhand and has avoided most of the developments of the last few decades &#8212; that his L.A. Times photo would be in color.)<\/p>\n<p>My story is <a title=\"ST on Perfidia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-ca-jc-james-ellroy-20140907-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Don&#8217;t miss <em>Perfidia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;J9S6BFoEKctFIUF9sCOFryBh5uvOWyC0&#8243;] AFTER completing his Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy and writing a memoir about his often tortured relationships with women, crime writer James Ellroy is back with a new quartet of novels that will serve as a prequel to his Los Angeles Quartet &#8212; the four great novels that include L.A. Confidential.\u00a0 A few days ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,34,134,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ellroy","7":"category-literary","8":"category-noir","9":"category-west-coast","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}