Live from Wordstock: James Ellroy

By Matthew Korfhage
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2 pm Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Oregon Convention Center:
Wordstock
Barry Sanders
Scott Westerfeld
new book Leviathan
Langdon Cook's
Greg Netzer,
James "L.A. Confidential" Ellroy
Ellroy put on one of the odder and more compelling—if not always likeable—performances I'd seen at any literary event in quite a while.
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Then he called us all a bunch of pederasts, cocksuckers, cuntlickers, and everything else.
Ellroy offered a part-improvised, part-scripted theater of self, a vocal and even physical japing one hardly ever sees outside of plays for children.
the woman who claimed that she was a psychic and that the Black Dahlia hated Ellroy's guts
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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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