James Ellroy interviewed by Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse is the host of Richard Crouse's Movie Show on the Independent Film Channel and Richard Crouse at the Movies on CFRB NewsTalk 1010 in Toronto. He is the regular film critic for CTV's Canada AM and is also the author of six books on pop culture history, including The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and Reel Winners. From 1998 to 2008 Crouse was the host of the television show Reel to Real.

James Ellroy is the author of the internationally bestselling L.A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. His critically acclaimed works also include the novels American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand, and the memoir My Dark Places. Ellroy presents his first novel in eight years, Blood’s a Rover, a political noir of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love.

James Grainger is a books columnist for the Toronto Star and the author of The Long Slide. He is also the Editor in Chief of Torontoist's new books site, Books@Torontoist.

Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A.. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History.
Internationally acclaimed novelist James Ellroy returns with his first novel in eight years, Blood’s a Rover, an astonishing raze and reconstruction of the recent past in the form of political noir.