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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with James Elroy. The L.A. Times calls

him one of the great American writers of our time. Yeah! Joyce Carol Oates calls him the

American Dostoevsky.

Yeah!

Stephen King's praise is so long and glowing, I won't even read the whole thing, but it will note

that it ends with Elroy is your man.

And for those listeners not already familiar with James Elroy, and at the risk of making

him wince or worse, because this is such a small part of his body of work he is the

author of l a confidential which was made into a film of the same name his latest is the enchanters

which is already getting incredible reviews james welcome happy to be here Doug so james that was my

intro how would you like to introduce the show woof woof here the demon dog bark he's got a 12-inch wanger that glows in the dark. It's big, but his dick is bigger. His right-wing fingers on the nuclear trigger.

Well, I think I like mine better, but tomato tomato. Now, today we've got our coffee. we're going to keep on our toes here.

Now, many of your books are set in L.A. and in particular, that golden age of the Hollywood era.

And I know your father, for a time, was business manager for Rita Hayworth.

That's right.

Any background on your father and Rita?

Yeah, he told me once when I was 11 years old,

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