Description: Emphasizing themes of politics, art, history, memory, and crime, these interdisciplinary essays illuminate the darkness present in the fiction and non-fiction of critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Ellroy. The volume offers broad disciplinary perspective, with in...
Brief description: Erik Anderson is the author of three previous books of nonfiction: The Poetics of Trespass (2010), Estranger (2016), and Flutter Point: Essays (2017), selected by Amy Fusselman for the 2015 Zone 3 Nonfiction Book Prize. He teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College, USA, and lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: ""Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy is an excellent and timely addition to the growing body of critical work on James Ellroy. It combines an academic and hardboiled style, which provides new insights on every page from a varied range of contributors."" --Steven Powell, author of Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury: 2023)