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...does he shy away from the gritty details of his own life. At the presentation of his newest book, Destination: Morgue!, at the Brattle Theater on Monday, his fiction was implicitly linked to his own experiences...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ellroy Shows Life’s Gritty Details | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...book is a collection of Ellroy’s fiction and nonfiction, which includes previously published pieces as well as three new novellas. Ellroy read from one of these, “Jungletown Jihad.” He described it as “the world’s only comedy about the specter of Arab terrorism...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ellroy Shows Life’s Gritty Details | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

When asked how he crafts such complex and multilayered works of historical fiction, Ellroy explained simply, “you write extremely big fuckin’ outlines. The outline for [The Cold Six Thousand] was 350 pages…Outline, outline, outline...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ellroy Shows Life’s Gritty Details | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...result is a lot of fiction. The second installment of the Underworld U.S.A. trilogy weighed in at 688 pages, and the third—due out in about two year—is promised to be even longer...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ellroy Shows Life’s Gritty Details | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

First, it’s important to recognize that there are editors of scientific journals who still think I’m a science fiction writer. Both science and fiction are about telling a story. The difference is that science has to be constrained by known facts...Science is a game with more rules and I find games with lots of rules to be more challenging to play. So, no, I never think of going back and writing science fiction stories...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Future Man | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

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