At 12:32 PM 21/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Can anybody here quote a paragraph from
Ellroy
>that, to them, shows him a great writer?
Not me, but then I'd have the same difficulty reciting
Ginsberg's HOWL from memory and I find the same kinetic
energy in Ellroy's opening take-down in White Jazz. More so,
in fact. Wasn't it the Detroit Free Press labelled Ellroy a
"blood poet"? Spot on.
Kerry
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