Hanging on for dear life!
Most interviews are routine. Not to say they are boring, but they are at least predictable. James Ellroy was anything but predictable. It was obvious very early in the interview that this one was far out of my control. Not to say Ellroy was in control. No one was. It just went wild. There was no sense fighting it, I just went with it. When I sat down to edit the 30 minutes down to 6, I had forgotten just how much profanity he’d used. This is, believe it or not, the cleaned up version of our chat. Have fun!