Please be sure to check out the YouTube Video down below where we share the conversation/interview that James Ellroy had recently with the Mysterious Bookshop’s Tom Wickersham. At that event James Ellroy discusses his new book, WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL (Knopf).
In this latest episode of THE BOOK SHOW PODCAST we get to hear from the Modern Master of Noir, James Ellroy. He talks about his new novel “Widespread Panic” (Knopf) which is mostly about the malevolent monarch of the 1950’s Hollywood Underground. This book has just been released & is in Bookstores right now! The novel is a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with Communist Conspiracies, FBI Finks, Celebrity Smut Films, and Strange Bedfellows… Classic Ellroy!! […]
Gabino Iglesias, an Author & Book Reviewer over at the NPR BOOK REVIEWS Page, has written an awesome book review for James Ellroy’s latest book, WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL (Knopf). This book just came out & is in stores now, so it’s perfect timing for this, ha ha! Thanks Mr. Iglesias & Congrats to James Ellroy! To Read The Book Review Just CLICK HERE!
On June 22nd, 2021 Andrea Grossman, over at THE WRITER’S BLOC PRESENTS website, got a bunch of Panelists together (YouTube Video down below) to celebrate James Ellroy’s latest book , WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL (Knopf). There is also a limited-supply of Signed Copies over at CHEVALIER’S BOOKS. James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, and other great novels about Los Angeles crime and punishment, has just released a new novel about L.A. Cops, Celebrities, and Scandal Mongers. […]
WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL by James Ellroy From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine. Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in ‘50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp—and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet—and delivered the dirt, […]