James Ellroy
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INTERVIEWER
You were away from Los Angeles for twenty-five years. Why’d you come back?
JAMES ELLROY
One reason: Cherchez la femme. I chased women to suburban New York, suburban Connecticut, Kansas City, Carmel, and San Francisco. But I ran out of places, and I ran out of women, so I ended up back here.
INTERVIEWER
Did you miss the city?
ELLROY
While I was away, the Los Angeles of my past accreted in my mind, developing its own power. Early on in my career I believed that in order to write about LA, I had to stay out of it entirely. But when I moved back, I realized that LA then lives in my blood. LA now does not.
-- James Ellroy at The Paris Review (Fall 2009)
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INTERVIEWER
You were away from Los Angeles for twenty-five years. Why’d you come back?
JAMES ELLROY
One reason: Cherchez la femme. I chased women to suburban New York, suburban Connecticut, Kansas City, Carmel, and San Francisco. But I ran out of places, and I ran out of women, so I ended up back here.
INTERVIEWER
Did you miss the city?
ELLROY
While I was away, the Los Angeles of my past accreted in my mind, developing its own power. Early on in my career I believed that in order to write about LA, I had to stay out of it entirely. But when I moved back, I realized that LA then lives in my blood. LA now does not.
-- James Ellroy at The Paris Review (Fall 2009)
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