James Ellroy - Excerpt from Bruce Wagner's "Memorial"

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"The Black Dahlia" author James Ellroy reads an excerpt from his friend Bruce Wagner's fiction novel, "Memorial."

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Mourning Becomes Electric: Bruce Wagner's "Memorial" and James Ellroy's "The Black Dahlia"

There are few, if any, American novelists who have received such consistent and high acclaim as Bruce Wagner. Be it the cult classic "Force Majeure," the groundbreaking "Cell Phone Trilogy" (I'm Losing You, I'll Let You Go, and Still Holding), or the Gatsby-like "The Chrysanthemum Palace" (a 2005 PEN Faulkner award finalist), critics and writers, from Michiko Kakutani to John Updike to James Ellroy, have hailed Wagner as our great fiction chronicler of Hollywood and the broken lives of La Vie L.A. With his richly orchestrated new novel "Memorial," Wagner ventures far beyond filmdom's gates, interweaving the stories of four estranged family members coping with their lives in the wake of natural and unnatural global disaster - and creates a breathtaking saga of faith, redemption, and spirituality in the 21st century.

Wagner's friend James Ellroy is, of course, the author of "The Black Dahlia," which has just hit the screens in Brian De Palma's movie version of this contemporary classic, as well as the novels "The Big Nowhere," "L.A. Confidential," and "White Jazz," all four of which are known as the L.A. Quartet. He's also the author of "American Tabloid," and the memoir "My Dark Places." - Cody's Books

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[Lrpesme48]

@MargaritasAntesPorco Ellroy just does well reading Ellroy. But c'est la vie, although I am not impressed with his author friend Wagner.

[radiovoice681]

6:41 James Ellroy rules!

[MargaritasAntesPorco]

went to one of ellroy's readings back in the 90's--he was, on that night, a great reader and had everyone totally engaged. Have to say, this is not one of ellroys better readings.....but he is an interesting writer and individual

[rouven187]

no offens, but he can't read a line.

[purplexy54]

i'm better at reading at my own pace. but i love James Ellroy

[curbyourwife]

Look, Bukowski IS a piece of shit. He dogged women every other Thursday. And wrote a great poem every other year. "NIRVANA" = Masterpiece.

"THE LAUGHING HEART" = Masterpiece and "THE BLUEBIRD" = Masterpiece. Facts are facts. And the fact is, while he gave women literary and physical black eyes, he wasn't even the first to do that. As for "speaking to the common man" those days are long gone, anyway, John Fante DID IT FIRST!

[boliverful1]

James Ellroy's books are anything but boring, he does have a unique manner of speech while HE reads, though...

[HugoJCox]

This shit sounds boring. This guy's boring.  This guy's boring to read I'm thinking.

[brucewagner]

I know...

I should have done the reading myself.

[DanielForkbeard]

It is always a little painful to receive criticism from people who are so ignorant of English spelling and grammar. You don't even make the effort to capitalize. Regarding your snide comment--I don't think Bukowski is the sun and moon of American Literature, although I consider him a great writer and at least a major star of American Lit.