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...JE: Because I've moved beyond it. Because I don't want to be pigeonholed as a writer, I don't want in any way to be constrained. I want to go out more broadly, and write about the whole of America...
...JE: Well, L.A. is the big league for people who want to be somebody else. That's a little tongue-in-cheek although I think it's true, that L.A. is where you go if you want to be somebody else. And the preponderance of people who want to be somebody else, who live in L.A., have skewed it off the axis of planet earth. I would not want to live in the immediate center, I have no interest in keeping up with popular culture, I enjoy the American midwest, and I'll never live in L.A. again. I haven...
...JE: I'm also observed with L.A. in the 40s My four L.A. Quarter books cover L.A. from 1947 to 1959. Now, in my Underworld USA trilogy, I'm moving out of the era of my childhood, my era of dimly-recalled events, into the era of my cognizance...
...JE: I'm in 1963 now, when I'm 15 years old, and it's an entirely different ballgame. The grand design of the rest of my career is to recreate twentieth century American history through fiction...
...JE: No. Because I am, with the exception of the non-fiction that I write, in the business of making up the past...