July 2009
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“[Gloria Stewart] trembled. She cried. She looked at Daddy Beckett. She sobbed...”
– James Ellroy, My Dark Places. The book is about his mother’s unsolved murder, the way he ran from her death through booze and drugs and terrible living, and his eventual return to the case to try to solve it. This quotation, on page 309 of the hardcover, had a peculiar force in context that it... 