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 ...

James Ellroy is the Los Angeles-based author of 19 books, including "The Black Dahlia," "L.A. Confidential" and "Perfidia" (Knopf), coming out Tuesday. He spoke with Marc Myers. The unsolved murder of ...

The time frame allows Ellroy to bring back literally dozens of characters, major and minor, from the earlier novels. Many of them, we already know, will come to bad ends as their fictional futures ...

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 ...

Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band The Ventures, known for 1960s instrumental hits including "Walk, Don't Run," has died at age 75. Don Wilson, the band's other co-founder, told ...

Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band the Ventures, passed away on June 14th, the band’s Don Wilson told their native Tacoma, Washington’s News Tribune ...