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Ellroy wraps up his LA Quartet with a fiery hard boiled cop novel White Jazz. The book is scorching from start to finish with brutal men with compromised morality and ferocious egos. Unlike the previous installments where Ellroy dips and dives betwee
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I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us all perhaps; or something he put there himself, creating it over time and unwittingly just as he created his face, his
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This group exists because “how we see the place and how the place sees us is different" and can undermine the feedback we get in everyday spaces. Fee ...more
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