LAist

'Perfidia' — novelist James Ellroy's monumental retelling of the Japanese internment

Novelist James Ellroy meets KPCC's John Rabe in a jail cell to talk his new novel, "Perfidia," set in L.A. in the weeks around the beginning of the internment of Japanese-Americans. Off-Ramp host John ...
LAist

James Ellroy's 'Perfidia' Is A Brutal, Beautiful Police Procedural

There are a lot of reasons not to read James Ellroy's newest novel, Perfidia — the opening shot in his proposed second L.A. Quartet. It's a long and sprawling book with about a million pages and ...
The Advocate

A vision of betrayal ‘Perfidia’ takes readers to WWII era

“Perfidia” by James Ellroy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. $28.95. Los Angeles, Dec. 6-29, 1941: The eve and immediate aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor is the setting for James Ellroy’s new crime novel ...
Seattle Times

James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’: dark doings on the eve of WWII

James Ellroy can be ornery. “I hate hipsters, I hate liberals, I hate rock ’n’ rollers, I hate the counterculture, I hate movie people,” he said in an interview promoting his new novel, “Perfidia.” He ...
Post and Courier

Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’ start of new L.A. quartet

PERFIDIA. By James Ellroy. Knopf. 701 pages. $34. James Ellroy’s new novel “Perfidia” begins on Dec. 6, 1941, in Los Angeles, the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Ellroy’s familiar staccato ...